Addison Wesley Longman

In her memoirs MCC wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably...

MT 's family (probably her widower and her brother John Blachford rather than her poet brother-in-law William Tighe ) published with Longman , London, a handsome, quarto, posthumous volume of her work: Psyche, with...

Stocks of several of SG 's novels from this period were destroyed in early 1944, when a bomb hit Longmans warehouse and destroyed many copies. The only pre-war novel to be reprinted was Cold Comfort...

She addressed this book of advice to one of her sons. In more than one edition, Longmans sold 4,500 copies of it.

The publisher Longman wrote requesting AR that they might be favd with the perusal of the whole of a book-length poem for which they were willing to offer her a thousand pounds.

This one was shorter again: two volumes. RH 's London publisher was Longman . A later edition by the Minerva Press bore no date, but was advertised in 1812. The text is available on...

Some time after 17 March 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green presented Colling with a copy of the plays of Shakespeare (the Bard), having heard that she admired his poetry. Bray...

Though the publishers were Longman and Dilly , the printer was the firm of Baldwin , with which the Tomlins family had links.

The fifth edition, 1808, has a frontispiece engraving of the painting by her husband which is now at Chawton House Library . It went through six editions of 1,000 to 1,500 copies in the years...

CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton .

Marcet received advice and encouragement in her project both from her husband and from one of his medical friends, Dr John Yelloy . Yelloy advised her to keep her style serious but accessible, and also...

She seems to have begun this work in 1816, when Longman replied very cautiously to a query about their publishing it.

HMW published the first volumes of her translation from Humboldt and Bonpland in 1814. These works were issued by a conger of fashionable publishers; it seems they made a loss (in spite of Humboldt's reputation...

MR thought that The Last of the Wine was the best work she had done up to that point—maybe her best work overall in retrospect. She was therefore shocked when Longman requested that she cut...

George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...