Hookham

Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed. It was probably, however, the manuscript of this work lying on her publisher's desk which enabled one of her admirers to guess the...

Published by Hookham and Carpenter , this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope 's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire...

It was published, like her second and third novels, by Hookham . It sold at three shillings, and did not bear AR 's name until the third edition, 1799. There was a reprint...

SG published, with Hookham , as The Author of the Private History of the Court of England, Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel.

MR published with her name, through Hookham , the historical Angelina. A Novel. In a Series of Letters.

SG also published this year, with the Minerva Press , Virginius and Virginia: A Poem, In Six Parts. From the Roman History: it was also listed as for sale by Hookham .

She thus, years later, doubly disparaged her own earliest effort. Rejected by Thomas Cadell , then accepted by Thomas Hookham , this work has not been firmly identified.

Hookham lost money by his dealings with the Holford family: with Selima, Gresford Vale, and Calaf.

LMH tells a romantic story in her memoirs about this series of novels. A lady (still alive in 1824, resident near Windsor) admired them so warmly that she vainly badgered the kind, generous, worthy...

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)...

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...

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. Goethe's novel...

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...

JW published anonymously (as a Lady) with Hookham the first two volumes of her first novel, The Twin Sisters; or, the Effects of Education.

Hookham continued to publish Holford (and probably her daughter) despite losing money on this novel.