Addison Wesley Longman

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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 Anne Grant
AG had been urged to publish when she first became a widow, but had more dread of censure than hope of applause.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
1: 15
The manuscript was accepted by Longman in spring 1805, although it...
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
This periodical's fuller title was The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres; the book form of The Magic Lantern followed the same year (before the end of June), together with Blessington's Sketches and...
Publishing Ann Radcliffe
The publisher Longman wrote requesting AR that they might be favd with the perusal of the whole of a book-length poem for which they were willing to offer her a thousand pounds.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07.
193
Publishing Lucy Walford
Charlotte, another novel by LW (which The Academy called a study of vulgarity)
The Academy.
62 (8 February 1902): 143
was published by Longmans, Green simultaneously in London and New York.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1999, p. i - xxix.
xxxiv, xxxix
Publishing Edith Somerville
ES produced this book under very difficult conditions: unrestrained conflict between Irish Republican forces and the dreaded Black and Tans . All the bridges had been broken around Skibbereen (the nearest town to her house,...
Publishing Phyllis Bottome
Although she wrote the book two years before this, PB did not have it published at that time because she had to nurse her sister Wilmett , who was ill with tuberculosis.
Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948.
272-3, 275, 284-5
Publishing Barbara Hofland
BH published with Longman , in an edition of a thousand copies, Moderation, A Tale; many more editions followed.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
76-7
Publishing Frances Trollope
FT published her novelThe Laurringtons; or, Superior People (in three volumes, without illustrations, and now very rare) not with Colburn but with Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans . The verso of the first half-title...
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.
qtd. in
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
215
Longman 's made her an advance of £400 on the...
Publishing Mary Robinson
MR published another novel, Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature, whose copyright brought her a hundred and fifty pounds from her new publisher, Longman .
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
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 Elizabeth Inchbald
The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...
Publishing Amelia Opie
AO published with LongmanSimple Tales in four volumes; this first story collection (which was marketed both to children and adults) reached a fourth London edition by 1815.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 8 (1806): 443
King, Shelley. “Westward Ho!: Charting the Transatlantic Travels of Amelia Opie’s Tales”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.

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