“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
Hookham
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Jane West | JW
published anonymously (as a Lady) with Hookham
the first two volumes of her first novel, The Twin Sisters; or, the Effects of Education. Bibliographers James Raven
and Antonia Forster
leave this work... |
Publishing | Eglinton Wallace | It appeared in two different editions put out this year through the different publishers T. Hookham
, and Debrett
. The Debrett edition lists the price, one shilling and sixpence, on the title-page. |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | The play was never produced, and Hookham
managed to sell no more than 32 copies in four months, resulting in a debt for Robinson of more than twenty-two pounds. Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 17 , pp. 191-07. 196 |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | This marks her abandonment of a series of other unsatisfactory publishers for the firm of Hookham
. Thomas Hookham
(who concentrated on fashionable bookselling but also published a few books a year) issued five of... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | This time the first edition of only 750 copies sold out; but again misjudgement followed, in the form of an optimistic second edition which moved hardly at all. This produced a debt to Hookham
which... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | |
Dedications | Ann Radcliffe | A second edition followed by April 1792, and a third in November 1792. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 82, 88 |
Publishing | Ann Radcliffe | |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | EP
switched from Hookham
to William Lane
of the Minerva Press
for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234 |
Author summary | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
published less than has been supposed. Only her children's books, two volumes of poems, and two novels (melodramatic but heartfelt, presenting actual, financial, as well as romance-type struggles) pose no problems of attribution. She... |
Publishing | Margaret Holford | A second book by Margaret Holford the elder
, the 6-volume, epistolary Selima, or the Village Tale, A Novel, was advertised as just out, printed and sold for the authoress by Hookham
in London... |
Publishing | Margaret Holford | Hookham
continued to publish Holford (and probably her daughter) despite losing money on this novel. Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press. 17 |
Timeline
By 1773: Thomas Hookham was publishing in London....
Writing climate item
By 1773
Thomas Hookham
was publishing in London. He ran the Logographic Press
from 1785, then the firm of Hookham and Carpenter
from 1791. His partnership with James Carpenter
was acrimoniously dissolved in 1798.
1793: Publishers Hookham and Carpenter opened a...
Writing climate item
1793
Publishers Hookham
and Carpenter opened a refitted version of the thirty-year-old Hookham's Library or Literary Assembly
in Old Bond Street, promising the best people, the best books.
Texts
Parsons, Eliza. The History of Miss Meredith. Hookham, 1790.