Smith's Relations to His Writers

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 38 to Chapter 3 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Sutherland, Novelists, chap. 1. See Patten for accounts of Dickens's disputes with the latter two publishers. The one exception in Smith's case was John Ruskin, who quarreled with Smith after thirty years of friendly and productive relations (Glynn, pp. 104-11).

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