Addison Wesley Longman

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	Eliza Parsons	EP tried a new publisher, Longman , for her historical An Old Friend with a New Face: A Novel, dedicated to Lady Howard . Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 1: 724 OCLC WorldCat.
Employer	Eva Figes	EF worked as an editor for Longmans . “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Employer	Frances Horovitz	FH read poetry by American and English poets for Longmans 's Poetry 1900 to 1965 recording (an audio version of their Poetry, 1900-1965 anthology), selected by Ted Hughes and directed by George MacBeth . OCLC WorldCat.
Literary responses	Mary Brunton	Brunton's English publisher, Longman , registered in the year of publication that the book was in great demand and very much admired on the whole, though some complain of the later part of the work...
Literary responses	Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm quickly became a critical and popular success, dispelling the fears of Longmans (SG 's publisher) that it was too eccentric to sell. When Longmans was left in ruins by bombing at...
Material Conditions of Writing	Mary Robinson	MR (in the month before her death) published through both Longman and the Bristol firm of Cottle , Lyrical Tales. Scholar Jonathan Wordsworth dates this publication 18 December, only eight days before the poet's death. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 9 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19 -64. 64 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xiii Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Deflected Violence and Dream-Visions in Mary Robinson’s ‘Lyrical Tales’”. European Romantic Review, No. 2, pp. 163 - 74. 163
Material Conditions of Writing	Frances Arabella Rowden	The year after taking on the Hans Place school as its headmistress, FAR published The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem, in two parts, printed by A. J. Valpy and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Material Conditions of Writing	Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan	About two years after her husband's death EPW published, through Longman , her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine. The Bodleian Library copy has La Fontaine's...
Publishing	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 1: 91 She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
Publishing	Elizabeth Hamilton	Again the full title was elaborate: Hints Addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools; Principally Intended to Shew, that the Benefits Derived from the New Modes of Teaching May Be Increased by a Partial...
Publishing	Elizabeth Rigby	In March 1864 ER published The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, by herself and Anna Brownell Jameson , in two volumes. Most of the actual writing in the book...
Publishing	Elizabeth Inchbald	The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...
Publishing	Frances Trollope	FT published her novel The Laurringtons; or, Superior People (in three volumes, without illustrations, and now very rare) not with Colburn but with Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans . The verso of the first half-title...
Publishing	Martin Ross	This was the first book they published with Longmans , in an edition of 3,000. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 126 Geraldine Cummins lists the number of first edition copies printed as 1,500. Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952. 254 Longman remained Somerville and Ross's, then...
Publishing	Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington	This periodical's fuller title was The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres; the book form of The Magic Lantern followed the same year (before the end of June), together with Blessington's Sketches and...

Timeline

4 August 1724

The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business based there, whose owner, William Taylor

1752

Thomas Longman (1730-97) completed his apprenticeship and became a partner in the London publishing firm of his uncle Thomas Longman the elder (1699-1755).

1856

Margaret Agnes Colvile , future wife of publisher Charles Kegan Paul , published her first two novels: Dorothy: A Tale and DeCressy.

1870

Browne and Nolan publishing firm was founded in Dublin by John Browne and William Nolan .

29 December 1940

St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...

1994

Longman the publisher, which since 1968 had been part of the multi-product Pearson conglomerate, ceased to exist as an independent business.

Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.