Thomas Cautley Newby

Standard Name: Newby, Thomas Cautley

Connections

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Occupation Emily Brontë
Charlotte's account of EB 's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the...
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...
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 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
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
Occupation Anne Brontë
The pseudonymous publication of the volume of Poems by AB and her sisters, and later of her own Agnes Grey (overshadowed as that was in three-volume publication alongside Emily's Wuthering Heights) seems to have...
Publishing Anne Brontë
The novel was accepted for publication by the London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby along with Emily 's Wuthering Heights. The sisters had to underwrite the publication by paying £50, to be refunded if sales...
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
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.
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
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
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...
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 ...

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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