Addison Wesley Longman

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Publishing Germaine de Staël
GS left two unfinished works at her death which were published posthumously. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, 1817, appeared in English as Considerations on the Principal Events of the French...
Publishing Amelia Opie
AO published Adeline Mowbray; or, The Mother and Daughter, her best-known novel, in a print-run of 2,000 copies.
Its date has been variously reported, but the Longman archives, recording the costs of paper, printing...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
Editions appeared at Philadelphia in 1799 and New York in 1804 and 1814. In London Longman and Newbery put out an edition in 1800; in a later edition than this appeared a frontispiece engraved from...
Publishing Jane Porter
JP was seen as the senior partner in the paired agreements which she and her sister made with Longman on 1 June 1808. Each was to deliver a novel within a year; Jane was to...
Publishing Mary Robinson
This marks her abandonment of a series of other unsatisfactory publishers for the firm of Hookham . Thomas Hookham (who concentrated on fashionable bookselling but also published a few books a year) issued five of...
Publishing Elizabeth B. Lester
Longman 's reader (our literary friend
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 449
) had suggested as title Isadora; or, The Force of First Love.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 449
This novel too was attributed to Mrs Ross, perhaps because of...
Publishing Amelia Opie
AO finished her careful revisions to The Father and Daughter and Adeline Mowbray for re-issue in the new edition printed in 1844 by W. Grove and Sons for Longman .
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
xxxiv, xxxix
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 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.
2: 703
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25.
1
Publishing Margaret Holford
The poem was reprinted by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1810. In 1821 the author was making enquiries of Longman through Joanna Baillie as to how many copies remained of this edition and...
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 Elizabeth Strickland
When the work reached its third volume ES secured a rise in the sum due from Colburn on receipt of each volume to £150.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Agnes Strickland
Colburn later paid the sisters £2,000 for the...
Publishing Jane West
JW published with her name Alicia de Lacy. An Historical Romance; she dated her introduction 7 March and the work was advertised as in press the next month.
Longman listed it in a flyer...
Publishing Joanna Baillie
These had all been written years earlier. Baillie had written Witchcraft in 1826-7,
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 592
after letting it lye by incomplete for a considerable distance of time before coming back to it.
Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre.
She had not...
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
, pp. 191-07.
204n19
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