Annals of a Publishing House - Volume 2

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-108-02140-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Printing and Publishing History

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) is best known as the author of nearly one hundred novels, but also wrote short stories and biographies. Closely connected with Blackwoods of Edinburgh from 1851, shortly before her death she was commissioned to write a history of the publishing firm by director William Blackwood, grandson of the founder. From small beginnings, the firm had rapidly become the leading Scottish publishing house, dominating the literary world, particularly through Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and an impressive list of famous authors. These included Thomas de Quincey, Walter Scott, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Magazine introduced the convention of having novels issued in serial form before publication as a book, which became standard practice for authors such as Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot. Volume 2 continues to 1861 and the death of the second William Blackwood, and includes landmarks such as the opening of a London branch, and George Eliot's first novels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oliphant, Margaret Wilson

Oliphant, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

12. Publications; 13. New contributors; 14. Domestic life; 15. Domestic and public life; 16. Illness and death; 17. The brothers; 18. More lights of 'Maga'; 19. The metropolitan branch; 20. The rank and file; 21. London and Edinburgh; 22. 37 Paternoster Row; 23. The new Blackwood band; 24. Major Blackwood; Index.