Tinsley Brothers

This was in fact the earliest-written manuscript that CR ever succeeded in publishing; it had been composed several years before. After this Skeet published three more of her books: Too Much Alone, 1860,...

CR 's next publishers, Tinsley Brothers , had close ties to the circulating libraries and provided a real boost to her career. Their biggest recent success had been Mary Elizabeth Braddon 's Lady Audley's Secret...

She dedicated this book to Alexander Johns of Carrickfergus.Tinsley Brothers arranged within a couple of hours of meeting her to pay her eight hundred pounds for this novel, of which fifty was...

Ouida 's popular first novel, Held in Bondage, was published by Tinsley .

It had been serialized in Colburn 's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth ) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863. With Ouida's...

TH published with Tinsley his third novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes (the first to bear his name), before the final instalment appeared in Tinsley's Magazine.

TH 's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan (after reading by Alexander Macmillan and John Morley ), by Chapman and Hall (after reading by George Meredith

Raymond's Heroine, another three-decker and one of INH 's most popular novels, was published by Hurst and Blackett (to which now she changed from Tinsley Brothers , who had published her earlier books).

She undertook the publication herself when she proved unable to find a publisher. By the following year the novel was already in its fourth edition. In 1869 Tinsley Brothers bought the rights to it for...

Its circulation was enormous. In its three-volume form it went through eight issues in its first three months, although reviewers implied that early announcements of these new editions were a form of puffery. Bibliographer Michael Sadleir

Although they initially promised MEB £250 for Lady Audley's Secret (£300 if it was reviewed in the Times), the Tinsley Brothers paid her £500 beyond this.

It was published in three volumes in December 1863, as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, with Tinsley Brothers , who paid £2,000 for two-year leases on this and Braddon's next novel.

A subplot excised in revision as Henry Dunbar was recycled into the short story Lost and Found: this removed the bigamy and blackmail from the novel. This time the novel in book form was...

George Bentley eventually offered Broughton £250 for this novel, with the proviso that she expand it to three volumes. Broughton returned a succinct refusal both of the revisions specified and the sum offered: I am...

During ECW 's years as an author, her annual income from her publishers (usually Messrs Chapman and Hall or Tinsley Brothers ) amounted to over £300.