Addison Wesley Longman

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Publishing Amelia Opie
The fifth edition, 1808, has a frontispiece engraving of the painting by her husband which is now at Chawton House Library . It went through six editions of 1,000 to 1,500 copies in the years...
Publishing Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
The Critical thought this probably inspired by recent books of travels to Greece.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 282
In fact the archaeologist William Gell had suggested that Owenson should write about the Greek quest for...
Publishing Mary Agnes Hamilton
After receiving an invitation from the publisher Longman in early 1932 to do this life, she wrote to the Webbs and was invited to discuss the project. They said they would not attempt to control...
Publishing Anna Eliza Bray
Publisher John Murray rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans , with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...
Publishing Mary Robinson
The print run was 1,000 copies. MR switched to Longman, considerably to her benefit, shortly before the Hookham and Carpenter alliance was dissolved. The sum of £150 turned out to be her average annual income...
Publishing Jane Porter
The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...
Publishing Elizabeth B. Lester
EBL published another anonymous novel, Hesitation; or, To Marry, or, Not to Marry?, whose title she must have insisted on, since her publisher, Longman , had advised her to change it.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 481, 449
Publishing Amelia Opie
She seems to have begun this work in 1816, when Longman replied very cautiously to a query about their publishing it.
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
545
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 Mary Robinson
Again the print-run was 1,000 copies, but Longman paid only sixty pounds for copyright, perhaps because at two volumes the novel was only half MR 's previous length.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
204n19
The recent scholarly edition from Broadview
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 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 Joanna Baillie
At the end of her life JB brought together the two major streams of her writing in Dramatic and Poetical Works, published by Longman with a portrait.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 703
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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Publishing Mary Robinson
During the four and a half years she was writing for Hookham and Carpenter, MR took the risk herself, but sold less well than she had expected and cleared less than ten pounds a year...
Publishing Barbara Hofland
Longman (who by this time had published two of BH 's collections of short fiction for adults) seems typically to have paid her twenty-five pounds for a copyright.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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