Thomas Cautley Newby

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...

CR formed warm personal relationships with many of her professional associates. She mentions genuine friendship with several publishers (even those who on occasion rejected her work): Thomas Cautley Newby and his woman of business,...

She later recalled how Newby 's snug and warm office in Welbeck Street was a refuge to her when she was shivering from walking the London streets in a bitter winter, offering a cheerful...

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.