Colburn

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...

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...

She returned to Colburn for this volume; the later ones which she planned never materialised. When Colburn died fifteen years later she recorded her regret that they had recently quarrelled, and had not parted friends...

This work, which somewhat uncomfortably mixes romance with travel narrative and cultural guide, was influenced by de Staël 's Corinne. Initially put out by a printer named Thomas at his own expense, it was...

Margaret Wilson (later MO ) published her first novel, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of SunnysideWritten by Herself, in three volumes, with Colburn of London.

Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.Colburn accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...

It had been serialized in Colburn 's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth ) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863. With Ouida's...

On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley , Henry Colburn , and William Saunders for the right to issue reprints and new books.

This edition was published by Colburn . EOB 's excellent scholarly introduction dwells on recent literary achievements of women. She does not explicitly identify the British ones she refers to, but they are clearly (as...

JP 's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Revising for the tenth edition, 1819, she was struck by the continuing timeliness of this purpose: by the...

EMA used a different publisher, Henry Colburn , for her two-volume Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, dedicated to the Duke of York , as by Elizabeth M. B. A. B. Princess Berkeley.