Colburn

The novel's treatment of religious tension at a time when the English public was debating Catholic Emancipation proved extremely scandalous. As a result, AEB became the target of much anger. The Athenæum...

In The Tuileries, a Tale, published as by the author of Hungarian Tales, Romances of Real Life, &c &c., CG later said she had broken new ground historically. Published with Colburn and Bentley

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...

She began writing the book on 18 September 1826 and completed it on 19 November of the following year. The book is based on historical records of the times it attempted to portray...

In about 1822 HW composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:...

AEB recalls in her autobiography that the novel was published amid public debates on Roman Catholic emancipation. She maintains, however, that her intentions for writing the book were not to make political propaganda. She...

CG 's Mothers and Daughters; A Tale of the Year 1830, published anonymously by Colburn , also in 1831, was reprinted in Bentley's Standard Novels the same year.

Colburn paid £1,200 together for this and a scientific piece by Morgan's husband. A facsimile with introduction by Jenny McAuley appeared in the Chawton House Library series in 2012.

MS began writing this novel in January 1831 (the year of the First Reform Bill), intending to subtitle it a Tale of the Present Times. While she worked on it she was moving...

Her current publisher, Colburn , offered her a thousand pounds for this book. She thought she could get more, and went to Constable , who, however, turned it down. The junior partner doubted her capacity...

Colburn instigated this book and the travelling necessary to produce it, and paid £2,000 for it. It was simultaneously published in London and Paris. The Quarterly Review, mounting a vicious attack...

While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish and my long plague. By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...

Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...

She wrote The Renunciation in Florence, and finished it by December 1832. The Hermitage, one-third written at Florence, was complete by January 1838.Henry Crabb Robinson struck the deal with Colburn

Her great-nephew suggested that she wrote this book four years before it appeared. The first edition (with two coloured plates and plans for flowerbeds) mentioned her address (Somersal Hall) as well as her...