Hookham

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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
The lost and unidentified novel published by Hookham was the first of a series by LMH that appeared without her name. Even Hookham was not let into the secret of her identity until 1792, and...
Reception Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
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...
Reception Margaret Holford
Hookham lost money by his dealings with the Holford family: with Selima, Gresford Vale, and Calaf.
Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press, 1991.
17
Textual Production Mary Robinson
MR published with her name, through Hookham , the historical Angelina. A Novel. In a Series of Letters.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xiii
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed.
Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Letters on the Female Mind. Hookham and Carpenter, 1793, 2 vols.
1: 2
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
It was probably, however, the manuscript of this work lying on her publisher's desk which enabled one of her admirers to guess the...
Textual Production Margaret Holford
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...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
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.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
5-6, 57
There was a reprint...
Textual Production Sarah Green
SG published, with Hookham , as The Author of the Private History of the Court of England, Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 323
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
no. 22
Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto, 2010.
11
Textual Production Susannah Gunning
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 .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 5 (1792): 570
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
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.
Literary historian Janice Thaddeus notes that a...

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