Addison Wesley Longman

The rest of the titles ascribed to MR in most recent reference books have been re-assigned, on incontrovertible evidence now discovered in the Longman letter-books, to Elizabeth B. Lester . Lester not only began her...

MR (in the month before her death) published through both Longman and the Bristol firm of Cottle , Lyrical Tales.

MR , as Anne Frances Randall, published with Longman and ReesA Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination. With Anecdotes.

MR published another novel, Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature, whose copyright brought her a hundred and fifty pounds from her new publisher, Longman .

MR published with her name, through Longman , The False Friend. A Domestic Story, an epistolary novel of sensibility in four volumes.

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...

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...

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. The recent scholarly edition from Broadview

During the four and a half years she was writing for Hookham and Carpenter, MR took the risk herself, but sold less well than she had expected and cleared less than ten pounds a year...

MR , as the author of Mademoiselle Mori, published with Longmans, Green another highly successful novel in two volumes: The Atelier du Lys; or, An Art Student in the Reign of Terror.

She worked on the novel in Rome, where it is set, and had permission to research and write in the Vatican Library . A Boston edition appeared the same year and a Tauchnitz edition...

In March 1864 ER published The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, by herself and Anna Brownell Jameson , in two volumes. Most of the actual writing in the book...

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...

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...

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...