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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>List of Illustrations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>vi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>vii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Setting the Scene</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Finding Success: Blackwood's, 1860--1879</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>21</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Africa Rewritten: The Case of John Hanning Speke</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>49</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Reade Revised: A Woman Hatter and the Women's Medical Movement</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>71</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Shifting Ground: Blackwood's, 1880--1912</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>91</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Creating House Identities: Nineteenth-Century Publishing Memoirs and the Annals of a Publishing House</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>113</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>``A Grocer's Business'': William Blackwood III and the Literary Agents</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>129</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Conclusion</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>151</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Appendices 1-3: Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>155</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Appendix 1. Blackwood & Sons Publishing Statistics, 1860--1910</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>159</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Appendix 2. Blackwood's Magazine Sales, 1856--1915</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>165</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Appendix 3. Margaret Oliphant Sales, 1860--1897</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>167</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Notes</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>169</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>185</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>191</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood &amp; Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors -- including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among many others -- in book form and in its monthly Blackwood&#39;s Magazine. In The House of Blackwood. David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse.Finkelstein begins with a general history of the Blackwood firm from 1804 to 1920, attending to family dynamics over several generations, to their molding of a particular political and national culture, to the shaping of a Blackwood&#39;s audience, and to the multiple causes for the firm&#39;s decline in the decades before World War I. He then offers six case studies of authors Conrad, Oliphant, John Hanning Speke, George Tompkyns Chesney, Charles Reade, and E. M. Forster and their relationships with the publishing house. He mines the voluminous correspondence of the firm with its authors and, eventually, with the authors&#39; agents. The value of the archive Finkelstein studies is its completeness, the depth of the ledger material (particularly interesting given that the Blackwoods did much of their own printing), and the extraordinary longevity of the firm. A key value of Finkelstein&#39;s account is his attention to the author/publisher/reader circuit that Robert Darnton emphasizes as the central focus of book history.

The house of Blackwood : Author-publisher relations in the Victorian era