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Textual Production Susannah Gunning
SG also published this year, with the Minerva Press , Virginius and Virginia: A Poem, In Six Parts. From the Roman History: it was also listed as for sale by Hookham .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 5 (1792): 570
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She thus, years later, doubly disparaged her own earliest effort. Rejected by Thomas Cadell , then accepted by Thomas Hookham , this work has not been firmly identified.
Literary historian Janice Thaddeus notes that a...
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed.
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Letters on the Female Mind. Hookham and Carpenter.
1: 2
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
It was probably, however, the manuscript of this work lying on her publisher's desk which enabled one of her admirers to guess the...
Textual Production Margaret Holford
Published by Hookham and Carpenter , this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope 's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
It was published, like her second and third novels, by Hookham . It sold at three shillings, and did not bear AR 's name until the third edition, 1799.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
5-6, 57
There was a reprint...
Textual Production Sarah Green
SG published, with Hookham , as The Author of the Private History of the Court of England, Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 323
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
no. 22
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto.
11
Textual Production Mary Robinson
MR published with her name, through Hookham , the historical Angelina. A Novel. In a Series of Letters.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen.
xiii
Reception Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
LMH tells a romantic story in her memoirs about this series of novels. A lady (still alive in 1824, resident near Windsor) admired them so warmly that she vainly badgered the kind, generous, worthy...
Reception Margaret Holford
Hookham lost money by his dealings with the Holford family: with Selima, Gresford Vale, and Calaf.
Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press.
17
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 Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
The lost and unidentified novel published by Hookham was the first of a series by LMH that appeared without her name. Even Hookham was not let into the secret of her identity until 1792, and...
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
The print run was 1,000 copies. MR switched to Longman, considerably to her benefit, shortly before the Hookham and Carpenter alliance was dissolved. The sum of £150 turned out to be her average annual income...
Publishing Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
For printing ConstanceHookham used the Logographic Press (an experimental firm which aimed to speed printing by having certain common words precast as units of type instead of having to be assembled from individual letters)...

Timeline

By 1773: Thomas Hookham was publishing in London....

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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...

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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.