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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...
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, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
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 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, p. i - xxix.
xxxiv, xxxix
Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO published with Longman and Rees a volume of Poems, bearing her name.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
230
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
xxxviii
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 413
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press.
496
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.
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.
Textual Production Amelia Opie
She published it with Longman , bearing her name. It was one of several tributes to this statesman, who died aged thirty-six and, as AO put it, distinguished by a nation's praise.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 36 (1802): 476
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 Amelia Opie
She seems to have begun this work in 1816, when Longman replied very cautiously to a query about their publishing it.
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press.
545
Textual Production Adelaide O'Keeffe
John O'Keeffe 's Dramatic Works were published in four volumes by Longman , probably edited by AOK .
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.
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN 's Lays and Legends appeared from Longman , having been favourably reported on by their reader, Andrew Lang .
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
129
Wealth and Poverty Thomas Moore
TM was well paid for his literary efforts. He gained £500 a year for Irish Melodies and £3,000 from Longmans for Lalla Rookh. Despite healthy payments from publishers, his fashionable life ensured that he...
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.
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...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
HM 's Traditions of Palestine was published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green as edited by herself.
Martineau, Harriet. Traditions of Palestine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
title-page
Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. New York Public Library.
141
Textual Production Anne Marsh
Chronicles of Dartmoor, 1866, and Maidenhood, 1867 (both three-volume novels published by Hurst and Blackett ), are sometimes attributed to AM even by reputable library catalogues, but the title-page of the latter reads...

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