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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Ann Radcliffe | A second edition followed by April 1792, and a third in November 1792. |
| Dedications | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | This novel was published by Hookham
in three volumes, and dedicated to Georgiana's friend Lady Camden
. Its subscription list, in this and the second edition (issued by Hookham in 1787, in two volumes each... |
| Author summary | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
published less than has been supposed. Only her children's books, two volumes of poems, and two novels (melodramatic but heartfelt, presenting actual, financial, as well as romance-type struggles) pose no problems of attribution. She... |
| Publishing | Ann Radcliffe | |
| Publishing | Eliza Parsons | EP
switched from Hookham
to William Lane
of the Minerva Press
for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234 |
| Publishing | Emily Frederick Clark | The year after her grandfather's high-profile suicide, EFC
published in two volumes with Hookham and Carpenter
, by subscription, her first novel (also her first book): Ianthé, or The Flower of Caernarvon. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 742 Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 17 , 1987, pp. 191-07. 193, n10 |
| Publishing | Emily Frederick Clark | It was dedicated by permission to the Prince of Wales
and its subscription was advertised at the back of other books. The advertisement says: An appeal to the sympathetic feelings of a liberal public would... |
| Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
| Publishing | Jane West | JW
published anonymously (as a Lady) with Hookham
the first two volumes of her first novel, The Twin Sisters; or, the Effects of Education. Bibliographers James Raven
and Antonia Forster
leave this work... |
| Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | For printing ConstanceHookham
used the Logographic Press
(an experimental firm which aimed to speed printing by having certain common words precast as units of type instead of having to be assembled from individual letters)... |
| Publishing | Eglinton Wallace | It appeared in two different editions put out this year through the different publishers T. Hookham
, and Debrett
. The Debrett edition lists the price, one shilling and sixpence, on the title-page. “Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases. |
| Publishing | Mary Robinson | The play was never produced, and Hookham
managed to sell no more than 32 copies in four months, resulting in a debt for Robinson of more than twenty-two pounds. Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 17 , 1987, pp. 191-07. 196 |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | A second book by Margaret Holford the elder
, the 6-volume, epistolary Selima, or the Village Tale, A Novel, was advertised as just out, printed and sold for the authoress by Hookham
in London... |
| 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 | Margaret Holford | Hookham
continued to publish Holford (and probably her daughter) despite losing money on this novel. Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press, 1991. 17 |
Timeline
By 1773: Thomas Hookham was publishing in London....
Writing climate item
By 1773
Thomas Hookham
was publishing in London. He ran the Logographic Press
from 1785, then the firm of Hookham and Carpenter
from 1791. His partnership with James Carpenter
was acrimoniously dissolved in 1798.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
17
, 1987, pp. 191-07. 192
1793: Publishers Hookham and Carpenter opened a...
Writing climate item
1793
Publishers Hookham
and Carpenter opened a refitted version of the thirty-year-old Hookham's Library or Literary Assembly
in Old Bond Street, promising the best people, the best books.
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Texts
Parsons, Eliza. The History of Miss Meredith. Hookham, 1790, 2 vols.