Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
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Publishing | Mary Renault | |
Publishing | Jane West | She addressed this book of advice to one of her sons. In more than one edition, Longmans
sold 4,500 copies of it. Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 75 |
Publishing | Emily Davies | Later that year Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green
published the address in pamphlet form. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Mary Renault | When MR
received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane
, the hardback division of Penguin
. After the death of... |
Publishing | Rachel Hunter | This one was shorter again: two volumes. RH
's London publisher was Longman
. A later edition by the Minerva Press
bore no date, but was advertised in 1812. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 467 |
Publishing | Amelia Opie | The now married AO
switched to Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown
for her first text to bear her name: her second novel, The Father and Daughter. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
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 | Martin Ross | |
Publishing | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | SACD
searched for a publisher for his novel, as he had for A Study in Scarlet, until it was taken by Longmans, Green and Co.
on the advice of Andrew Lang
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Mary Renault | With its British publication in February 1979, she moved from Allen Lane
to a publishing firm new for her, John Murray
. She valued them for having been Byron's publishers, and for being a family... |
Publishing | Catherine Hutton | |
Publishing | Amelia Opie | |
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 |
Publishing | Mary Renault | Partly because she was angry at being transferred to another publisher by Longman
without her knowledge and consent, she agreed to write a life of Alexander and publish it with George Rainbird
, who had... |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | Charlotte, another novel by LW
(which The Academy called a study of vulgarity) The Academy. 62 (8 February 1902): 143 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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