Colburn

Connections

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Textual Production Felicia Skene
The Tutor's Ward, another novel by FS (as the author of Wayfaring Sketches, Use and Abuse, etc.), appeared from Colburn in two volumes.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Colburn reportedly gave him £500 for the novel.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Ann Hatton
This was a more ambitious affair, published anonymously with Colburn in five volumes, and dedicated to the Countess of Derby—a member of the aristocracy more famous in her previous incarnation as the highly successful actress...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
This was once again published by Colburn .
Textual Production Frances Jacson
FJ published, with Colburn , Rhoda, a novel in three volumes, by the author of Things By Their Right Names, Plain Sense, &c.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 560
Textual Production Sarah Harriet Burney
It seems that SHB worked as editor on at least two editions of novels for the publisher Thomas Tegg . Colburn invited her to contribute to his New Monthly Magazine.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
lx, lxvi and n126
Clark, Lorna J. “The Hermitage: Late Gothic or Early Detective Fiction?”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC.
Textual Production Frances Jacson
FJ published with Colburn , as the author of Rhoda, &c, a novel entitled Isabella.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
28 (1822): 269
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published with Colburn what would now be called a coffee-table book: The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany; Vallombrosa,Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, with Historical and Legendary Notices.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray.
title-page
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published the anonymous three-decker silver-fork novel Flirtation, her first book with Colburn .
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Flirtation. H. Colburn.
title-page
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
62
Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley ), The Smiths...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published with Colburn , using her name for the first time, The Divorced, a silver-fork novel which professes not to be fiction.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
487 (1837): 135
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
64
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL published, anonymously in three volumes through Henry Colburn , her first and most controversial novel, Glenarvon.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
184
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 433
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB , as the author of The History of a Flirt, published with Colburn another novel of fashionable life, The Manoeuvring Mother.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
766 (1842): 582
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL published, anonymously in two volumes, her second novel, Graham Hamilton, whose manuscript she had delivered to Colburn two years previously.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 538-9

Timeline

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...

Writing climate item

1 September 1832

The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.

Texts

Atkins, Anna. The Perils of Fashion. Colburn, 1852.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Protestant. Colburn, 1828.
Crowe, Catherine. The Adventures of a Beauty. Colburn, 1852.
Davenport, Selina. The Sons of the Viscount and the Daughters of the Earl. Colburn, 1813.
Gore, Catherine. Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, Colburn, 1837.
Hatton, Ann. Sicilian Mysteries. Colburn, 1812.
Hervey, Elizabeth. Amabel; or, Memoirs of A Woman of Fashion. Colburn, 1814.
Holcroft, Fanny. The Wife and the Lover. Colburn, 1813.
Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron. Jacob Bendixen. Translator Howitt, Mary, Colburn, 1852.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Marian Withers. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Merkland: A Story of Scottish Life. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside. Colburn, 1849.
Skene, Felicia. The Tutor’s Ward. Colburn, 1851, p. 2 vols.
Smythies, Harriet. The Matchmaker. Colburn, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851.
Trollope, Frances. Uncle Walter. Colburn, 1852.
Tytler, Sarah. The Kinnears. Colburn, 1852.