Addison Wesley Longman

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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.
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 91
She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
Publishing Elizabeth Hamilton
Again the full title was elaborate: Hints Addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools; Principally Intended to Shew, that the Benefits Derived from the New Modes of Teaching May Be Increased by a Partial...
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 Frances Wright
FW (as an Englishwoman) published with Longman and Rees of LondonViews of Society and Manners in America, In a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, during the...
Publishing Charlotte Smith
The publication was initially turned down by Cadell and Davies . The two-volume edition was published by Sampson Low in 1800. They published a third volume in 1801, and two further volumes followed from Longman and Rees
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 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 Isabella Kelly
Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York . This dedication voices IK 's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...
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 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
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 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...

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