Addison Wesley Longman

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Connections 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 et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Employer Eva Figes
EF worked as an editor for Longmans .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 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.
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Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
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Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen.
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Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Deflected Violence and Dream-Visions in Mary Robinson’s ‘Lyrical Tales’”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 163-74.
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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
Publishing Catherine Hutton
CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton .
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers.
159
Publishing Jane Marcet
Marcet received advice and encouragement in her project both from her husband and from one of his medical friends, Dr John Yelloy . Yelloy advised her to keep her style serious but accessible, and also...
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.
545
Publishing Helen Maria Williams
HMW published the first volumes of her translation from Humboldt and Bonpland in 1814. These works were issued by a conger of fashionable publishers; it seems they made a loss (in spite of Humboldt's reputation...
Publishing Mary Renault
MR thought that The Last of the Wine was the best work she had done up to that point—maybe her best work overall in retrospect. She was therefore shocked when Longman requested that she cut...
Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
Publishing Charlotte Dacre
The title-page gives her Dacre name, but says she is better known as Rosa Matilda, and as author of her two works of 1805. The archives of Longman's , the novel's publisher, call her...

Timeline

4 August 1724: The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.
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