Henry Colburn

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...

An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...

MS had begun The Last Man two years earlier, motivated in part by a desire to express her sense of loss and solitude after her husband's death. On 14 May 1824 she wrote, The last...

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...

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.

She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her. When the queen became engaged Henry Colburn , too, was eager to (in Una Pope-Hennessy

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...

When the work reached its third volume ES secured a rise in the sum due from Colburn on receipt of each volume to £150.Colburn later paid the sisters £2,000 for the...

She returned to Colburn for this volume; the later ones which she planned never materialised. When Colburn died fifteen years later she recorded her regret that they had recently quarrelled, and had not parted friends...

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).

Colburn included in a supplement to his New Monthly MagazineSOLM 's riposte to the critics of her Italy: A Letter to the Reviewers of Italy.

Sydney Morgan 's long essay Absenteeism first appeared in Colburn 's New Monthly Magazine; it was issued in book form the following year.

Aware she was sailing close to the wind in depicting the sexual irregularity of fashionable Dublin society, Morgan consulted Lady Cloncurry (whose husband had divorced his first wife for adultery). Lady Cloncurry gave it as...

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...

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...