Henry Colburn

Standard Name: Colburn, Henry

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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...
Publishing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of...
Reception Agnes Strickland
At Colburn 's death in 1856 the copyright of the illustrated edition (for which the authors had received two thousand pounds) was sold at auction to Longman, Hurst and Blackett for £6,900.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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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...
Reception Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Reviewers did not attack Morgan on their old political grounds, since events were clearly moving towards an outcome not unlike what she had supported. Instead they attacked the book's morality. The Literary Gazette intoned, we...
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...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
This is not to be confused with an anoymous publication bearing the same title, also in three volumes, published by Henry Colburn in 1810 as (by implication) a sequel to Maria Edgeworth 's Tales of...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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When the queen became engaged Henry Colburn , too, was eager to (in Una Pope-Hennessy
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 Elizabeth Strickland
ES also became editor (through the good offices of Sydney Morgan ) of Henry Colburn 's Court Journal, which he launched in 1829. She later gave up this editorship in order to invest her...
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.
Textual Production Mary Shelley
On Godwin's death the publisher Henry Colburn commissioned a memoir of him to be written by Mary Jane Godwin with MS 's collaboration. They were still working on this project three or even four years...
Travel Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan spent a holiday in Germany (which she had declined to do in 1824 when Henry Colburn had suggested that she write a book about it).
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses.
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Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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