Addison Wesley Longman

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	Eliza Parsons	EP tried a new publisher, Longman , for her historical An Old Friend with a New Face: A Novel, dedicated to Lady Howard . Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 1: 724 OCLC WorldCat.
Employer	Frances Horovitz	FH read poetry by American and English poets for Longmans 's Poetry 1900 to 1965 recording (an audio version of their Poetry, 1900-1965 anthology), selected by Ted Hughes and directed by George MacBeth . OCLC WorldCat.
Employer	Eva Figes	EF worked as an editor for Longmans . “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Literary responses	Mary Brunton	Brunton's English publisher, Longman , registered in the year of publication that the book was in great demand and very much admired on the whole, though some complain of the later part of the work...
Literary responses	Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm quickly became a critical and popular success, dispelling the fears of Longmans (SG 's publisher) that it was too eccentric to sell. When Longmans was left in ruins by bombing at...
Material Conditions of Writing	Frances Arabella Rowden	The year after taking on the Hans Place school as its headmistress, FAR published The Pleasures of Friendship. A Poem, in two parts, printed by A. J. Valpy and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Material Conditions of Writing	Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan	About two years after her husband's death EPW published, through Longman , her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine. The Bodleian Library copy has La Fontaine's...
Material Conditions of Writing	Mary Robinson	MR (in the month before her death) published through both Longman and the Bristol firm of Cottle , Lyrical Tales. Scholar Jonathan Wordsworth dates this publication 18 December, only eight days before the poet's death. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 9 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19 -64. 64 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xiii Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Deflected Violence and Dream-Visions in Mary Robinson’s ‘Lyrical Tales’”. European Romantic Review, No. 2, pp. 163 - 74. 163
Publishing	Caroline Bowles	She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey , hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray
Publishing	Elizabeth B. Lester	The Quakers appeared in one volume, The Bachelor and the Married Man in three. Longman had sold 720 copies (out of 750) of The Bachelor and the Married Man by December 1817, and produced a...
Publishing	Edith Somerville	ES worked on this book during the Irish Civil War: it was a means by which I preserve my reason in this distracted country. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 215 Longman 's made her an advance of £400 on the...
Publishing	Jane Harvey	JH published with her name (through Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, but to be sold by Longman of London) Memoirs of an Author. A Minerva re-issue of this book in 1814 titles it...
Publishing	Jane Porter	She wrote this novel while living in London. Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. Derby and Jackson, 1856. 19 In her preface to the first edition (now extremely rare) Feminist Companion Archive. she wrote that she had made no hesitation to accept truth as the helpmate of...
Publishing	Barbara Hofland	Butts remarks the complex publishing history of this novel, which was at first printed at Ipswich and sold by Longman in London, then reprinted the same year by Minerva , which did not mention...
Publishing	Anna Brassey	A frontispiece is a handsome picture of the steam yacht Sunbeam, under full sail. Longman initially printed one thousand copies priced at a guinea each; this whole print run was taken up by Mudie's Circulating Library

Timeline

4 August 1724

The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business based there, whose owner, William Taylor

1752

Thomas Longman (1730-97) completed his apprenticeship and became a partner in the London publishing firm of his uncle Thomas Longman the elder (1699-1755).

1856

Margaret Agnes Colvile , future wife of publisher Charles Kegan Paul , published her first two novels: Dorothy: A Tale and DeCressy.

1870

Browne and Nolan publishing firm was founded in Dublin by John Browne and William Nolan .

29 December 1940

St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...

1994

Longman the publisher, which since 1968 had been part of the multi-product Pearson conglomerate, ceased to exist as an independent business.

Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.