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7th December 1818 acquainted Alexander Blackwood Ancient Golf Club Blackwood & Sons Blackwood died Blackwood's Magazine born in Edinburgh brilliant Bulwer career Caxton character Charles Lever Christopher North Colonel Chesney connection criticism death Delane early editor of Blackwood's editorship eminent English faculty fame famous father firm founder Frederick Hardman friends friendship G. H. Lewes genial genius George Eliot Hamley Hogg honourable humour John Black John Blackwood John Hill Burton judgment kindly knew late Laurence Oliphant Liberal literary taste literature little editor Lockhart London Lord Lytton ment never Noctes Ambrosianæ novelist novels OCTOBER 30 Old Ebony opened a branch party periodical political Principal Tulloch Professor Aytoun R. D. Blackmore recognised Royal and Ancient Samuel Warren Scotch Scotland Sir Archibald Alison St Andrews success talent Thackeray tion Tory Toryism William Blackwood William Hay Wilson wood wood's Magazine writers young youth
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Page 14 - Blackwood family," statements to the contrary have been persistently, we had almost said perversely, reiterated. When John Blackwood first assumed the editorship, the great Christopher North — as was natural perhaps in so old a friend and bulwark of the Magazine — was inclined to offer his advice more frequently, and in a more dictatorial manner than was altogether palatable to the young editor, who often told us that one of the most unpleasant moments of his life was that in which he felt constrained...
Page 5 - It would appear that he devoted himself to the work set before him with characteristic thoroughness, for his term of probation was short; and in the following year he was placed in charge of a branch of the Edinburgh house which was at that time opened in Pall Mall. His management was very successful, and secured the cordial recognition of his elder brothers — Alexander, Robert, and, in later years, of Major William Blackwood, — for whom we can...
Page 34 - ... s previous novels, and he gave it a very cordial reception. Soon afterwards the late GH Lewes, who was a frequent contributor and the author of many brilliant stories which he never owned, sent the editor the first part of " Scenes of Clerical Life," also without giving the name of the writer ; and it was not until the third part reached him that Mr. Blackwood was informed that his new contributor was designated " George Eliot." Mrs. Oliphant and the Hamleys were among the most voluminous contributors...
Page 32 - Slatkrrnad during the first years of his editorship, at a time when she was altogether unknown, and his list of contributors contained many names with which the world was then altogether unfamiliar, but to which are now assigned the chief place in our literature. In 1848 Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, who in 1842-3 had contributed his " Poems and Ballads of Seville " to the magazine, came forward anonymously with
Page 50 - He was educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, and in 1786 he was apprenticed to his father as a writer to the signet.
Page 21 - ... and by that alone; but no outcome of a deliberate policy could better have subserved the interests alike of editor and contributor, of author and publisher. In pecuniary dealings with literary men he was discreetly munificent. He appeared to have the interests of his clients as much at heart as his own ; and his evidence before the Copyright Commission showed him to be the true friend of authors. So much so, indeed, that, from the publishers...
Page 32 - Edinburgh ; but the failing health of the latter soon threw the entire responsibility upon John Blackwood, and from 1846 to his death he continued to edit the magazine. It was his good fortune to inherit a brilliant and willing staff of contributors — Wilson, Aytoun, and Alison, amongst the rest. Some of the earliest and best of Mrs. Browning's poems appeared in...
Page 35 - ... was not until the third part reached him that Mr. Blackwood was informed that his new contributor was designated " George Eliot." Mrs. Oliphant and the Hamleys were among the most voluminous contributors to the magazine during Mr. John Blackwood's editorship; but an important acquisition to the staff was Charles Lever, who during the last ten years of his life continued to delight readers of the magazine by his endless stock of
Page 31 - ... Blackwoods. John Blackwood applied himself with great success to work, and the catalogues of the firm about this time bear testimony to the publications which he was the means of bringing to the Edinburgh house. One of the first undertakings which he accepted on his own responsibility was a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, then a college tutor, and though his seniors were doubtful about its merits, John defended his choice on the ground that he felt confident the preacher would rise to...
Page 51 - Co. iu order to learn the practical part of a publisher's business, and in 1840 a branch office of the Edinburgh firm was opened under his direction in Pall Mall, which was subsequently removed to Paternoster Row. As the London representative of his brothers, Messrs. Alexander and Robert Blackwood, who, on their father's death, in 1834, had succeeded to the business, John Blackwood proved himself most active and judicious, while liis literary tastes led him into society and secured him friendships...