biography
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| lived:
| (1824–1901)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in London, UK. He joined his father's firm of Smith & Elder in 1838, and became head in 1846. He founded the Cornhill Magazine in 1860 with Thackeray as editor, and the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865. He published the works of George Eliot, the Brownings, Mrs Gaskell, Trollope, and others. He also published the Dictionary of National Biography (63 vols, 1885–1900). |
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