George Murray Smith
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George Murray Smith was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for founding influential literary periodicals and publishing major Victorian authors.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Murray Smith canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel |
serialised fiction in periodicals
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subscription-based literary magazines ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| employer | Smith, Elder & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book publishing
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periodical publishing ⓘ |
| genre | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| givenName | George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | Victorian literary culture ⓘ |
| industry | publishing industry ⓘ |
| influenced | Victorian readership ⓘ |
| influencedBy | expansion of the 19th-century reading public ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | George Murray Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cultivating long-term relationships with authors
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developing Cornhill Magazine as a leading Victorian literary magazine ⓘ developing The Pall Mall Gazette as an influential evening newspaper ⓘ founding influential literary periodicals ⓘ high editorial standards in literary publishing ⓘ publishing major Victorian authors ⓘ serial publication of Victorian novels ⓘ supporting women writers in the Victorian era ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cornhill Magazine
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The Pall Mall Gazette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of Smith, Elder & Co. ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor |
Alfred Tennyson
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Anthony Trollope NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlotte Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Gaskell NERFINISHED ⓘ George Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ John Ruskin NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ William Makepeace Thackeray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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