Henry Colburn

Standard Name: Colburn, Henry

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Publishing Grace Aguilar
It appeared as a tract that same year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
She declined the invitation from publisher Henry Colburn to write a history specifically of Jewish persecution in England, later explaining to Camilla Crosland that [w]e are so...
Publishing Charlotte Brontë
She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .
The firm was the publisher...
Publishing Mary Cowden Clarke
In her memoirs MCC wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Crowe
The Adventures of a Beauty, the fourth novel by CC , was published in three volumes by 13 March 1852.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1272 (1852): 297-98
It appeared after CC had transferred to a new publisher, Colburn and Co.
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
ME received nine hundred pounds for these volumes.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
492
In 1810 Henry Colburn published another three volumes of tales which he implicitly asserted to be Edgeworth's sequel. Her publisher immediately protested.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
49
Later this year...
Publishing Catherine Gore
Henry Colburn exploited the publicity created by the association of CG 's Mrs. Armytage with a sensational murder: it is said that he promptly re-issued the novel.
The catalogues of the British Library and Bodleian
Publishing Catherine Gore
A European edition of the first title appeared (at Brussels and Frankfurt) in the same year as the London one. The reprint for Colburn 's New Novelists edition featured an engraved portraitof CG .
Copeland, Edward. “Virgin Sacrifice: Elizabeth Bennet <span data-tei-ns-tag="">After</span> Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, pp. 156-74.
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Publishing Anna Maria Hall
In the introduction, AMH explains that she disliked the title chosen by her publisher Henry Colburn , because she felt it too closely resembled John Wilson 's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
77
Reception Elizabeth Hervey
The publisher, Henry Colburn , sent a pretty bound copy to Sarah Harriet Burney . She (unfortunately for the literary historian, since her opinion would be worth having) apparently thanked him for it before she...
Textual Production Maria Elizabetha Jacson
MEJ issued with Henry ColburnThe Florist's Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, the only one of her books to go into a third edition. Again she published with...
Textual Production L. E. L.
LEL 's third novel, Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides, was published through ColburnHenry Colburn , as by the author of The Improvisatrice.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, p. various pages.
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Textual Production L. E. L.
Duty and Inclination, LEL 's final completed novel, was published by Henry ColburnHenry Colburn as edited by Miss Landon.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL negotiated hard with her publisher, Henry Colburn , and would have liked to put her name on her second work of fiction, but judged it more prudent not to. She offered him further projected...
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It sold only four hundred copies over a two-year period. Blessington's publisher, Henry Colburn , lost £40 on the book, and declined to publish further work by her.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
424
She nevertheless persevered with her fiction...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Colburn accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...

Timeline

1806: Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in...

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1806

Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in London; his authors included many best-sellers.

1 February 1814: The first number appeared of the New Monthly...

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1 February 1814

The first number appeared of the New Monthly Magazine: published initially by Henry Colburn , it was said to be the earliest monthly to incorporate a miscellany of articles.

January 1817: Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical,...

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January 1817

Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical, the Literary Gazette, to go with his New Monthly Magazine.

1 January 1821: The first issue of the revised New Monthly...

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1 January 1821

The first issue of the revised New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal was published by Henry Colburn .

1826: William Saunders and Edward John Otley established...

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1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.

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).

January 1853: The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was...

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January 1853

The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was founded at 13 Great Marlborough Street, London, by Daniel Hurst and Henry Blackett on their buying Henry Colburn 's business.

December 1854: The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began...

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December 1854

The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began rapidly to decline when Henry Colburn 's control ceased.

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