Smith, Elder & Co.
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Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. or Smith, Elder and Co. was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century. It was purchased b
Offices of Smith, Elder & Co. at No. 15 Waterloo Place in London
Charlotte Brontë
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Charlotte Nicholls, commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë, was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel J
Smith, Elder & Co.
…notable for producing the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). The firm achieved its first major success with the publication of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in 1847, under the pseudonym of "Currer Bell". Other major authors published by the firm included Robert Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth…
Portrait c. 1834
The Brontë sisters, painted by Branwell Brontë (in order: Anne, Emily and Charlotte)
Plaque on the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Constantin Heger in 1865