Thomas Cautley Newby

Standard Name: Newby, Thomas Cautley

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Textual Production Emily Brontë
A letter from her publisher Newby in February 1848 suggests that EB had consulted him about the publication of another novel, then in progress. At the end of the year, he announced that another work...
Textual Production Emily Brontë
The persona of Ellis Bell, a mask that Emily insisted on retaining past the point when Charlotte would have liked to abandon the pseudonyms, led to considerable speculation and the conflation of the sisters...
Textual Production Catherine Maria Grey
The Gambler's Wife. A Novel, a popular silver fork novel by the author of The Young Prima Donna, The Belle of the Familly, The Old Dower House, &c., who (we now know) is...
Textual Production Anne Brontë
AB 's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in three volumes by Thomas Cautley Newby under the pseudonym Acton Bell.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
557
Reception Charlotte Brontë
Thomas Newby , Anne's publisher, made the claim, which alarmed Charlotte's Smith, Elder, and Co. ; the sisters revealed their identities solely to their publishers.
Reception George Eliot
Unscrupulous publisher Thomas Cautley Newby took advantage of GE 's work to advertise a spurious Adam Bede, Junior: A Sequel.
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
313-14
Reception Charlotte Riddell
Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR 's work heretofore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1947 (1865): 233
Publishing Anne Brontë
Despite the success of the two novels, Newby did not refund Emily and AB 's deposit.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
525, 747
Publishing Anne Brontë
The novel sold well and went into a second edition in mid-August.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
564
AB earned a total of £25 from Newby for the copyright.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
579
Publishing Emily Brontë
Anne and EB arranged with Thomas Newby to publish Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights; they had to pay him £50 towards costs.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
525
Publishing Emily Brontë
In early December 1847, the two novels, bound together in three volumes to resemble the standard triple-decker fare of the circulating libraries, were published by Thomas Newby in London under the pseudonyms Ellis and Acton...
Publishing Julia Kavanagh
It seems that she had indeed offered to a different publisher to edit this work, but had then withdrawn. The dispute in the pages of the Athenæum, involving herself, and T. C. Newby ...
Publishing L. T. Meade
Ashton-Morton; or, Memories of My Life, the first full-length fiction written, at seventeen, by Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (later LTM ), was published anonymously by T. C. Newby after she submitted it through a friend...
Publishing Charlotte Riddell
She later recalled how Newby 's snug and warm office in Welbeck Street
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
18
was a refuge to her when she was shivering from walking the London streets in a bitter winter, offering a cheerful...
Publishing Anne Brontë
Newby 's advertisement of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the US as the work of Currer Bell prompted Charlotte and AB to make a sudden trip to London to refute the claim.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
557

Timeline

1840: Thomas Cautley Newby established himself...

Writing climate item

1840

Thomas Cautley Newby established himself as a publisher in London; he earned notoriety for failing to honour contracts, especially with new writers.

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