Addison Wesley Longman

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Publishing Nina Bawden
George Hardinge was NB 's first editor. She stayed with him as he moved from Collins , to Longman , and then to Macmillan . After his retirement, she moved to Gollancz (which had already...
Publishing Georgette Heyer
She hated the collaborative process that produced these books. All the clues & things bother me . . . I find the whole thing fatuous.
qtd. in
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 29-30.
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But she needed the money. Longman published only 5,000...
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 Edith Lyttelton
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. , the book sold rapidly, and by June 1917 had already gone through four impressions. A new, abridged edition came out in 1923.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Lyttelton, Edith. Alfred Lyttelton: An Account of His Life. Longmans, Green, 1917.
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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 Stella Gibbons
Stocks of several of SG 's novels from this period were destroyed in early 1944, when a bomb hit Longmans warehouse and destroyed many copies. The only pre-war novel to be reprinted was Cold Comfort...
Publishing Martin Ross
This was the first book they published with Longmans , in an edition of 3,000.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Geraldine Cummins lists the number of first edition copies printed as 1,500.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
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Longman remained Somerville and Ross's, then...
Publishing Charlotte Dacre
The title-page gives her Dacre name, but says she is better known as Rosa Matilda, and as author of her two works of 1805. The archives of Longman's , the novel's publisher, call her...
Publishing Mary Renault
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...
Reception Sylvia Pankhurst
On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw had reached many thousands of people...
Reception Catherine Fanshawe
CF 's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper and Walter Scott , as well as Joanna Baillie , Anne Grant , and Mary Berry
Reception Barbara Hofland
Longman sold off some of their BH copyrights to A. K. Newman .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Reception Agnes Strickland
At Colburn 's death in 1856 the copyright of the illustrated edition (for which the authors had received two thousand pounds) was sold at auction to Longman, Hurst and Blackett for £6,900.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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Textual Features Stella Gibbons
Published by Longmans , the volume includes such titles as The Cunning Huntress, Artemis Married, and The Discovery, a sonnet about Columbus through the eyes of a Native American.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's...

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