The novel's treatment of religious tension at a time when the English public was debating Catholic Emancipation proved extremely scandalous. As a result, AEB
became the target of much anger.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 52
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
203
The Athenæum...
Material Conditions of Writing
Catherine Gore
In The Tuileries, a Tale, published as by the author of Hungarian Tales, Romances of Real Life, &c &c., CG
later said she had broken new ground historically. Published with Colburn and Bentley
Publishing
Agnes Strickland
They failed to reach agreement with Colburn
, and this collection was published by William Blackwood
in Edinburgh.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
211
It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press
in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
14
Colburn
accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...
Publishing
Sarah Harriet Burney
While struggling to finish this work, SHB
called it my own eternal rubbish
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
130
and my long plague.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
153
By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...
Publishing
Mary Shelley
MS
began writing this novel in January 1831 (the year of the First Reform Bill), intending to subtitle it a Tale of the Present Times.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
426
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45.
45
While she worked on it she was moving...
Publishing
Lady Caroline Lamb
According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...
Publishing
Sarah Harriet Burney
She wrote The Renunciation in Florence, and finished it by December 1832. The Hermitage, one-third written at Florence, was complete by January 1838.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997.
It had been serialized in Colburn
's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth
) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 242
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2024, Numerous volumes.
43: 370
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Hildegarde of Bingen,. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Translators Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, Vol.
volume i
, Oxford University Press, 1994.
98
It was lavishly produced, with plates and portraits.
Publishing
Catherine Gore
CG
's Mothers and Daughters; A Tale of the Year 1830, published anonymously by Colburn
, also in 1831, was reprinted in Bentley's Standard Novels the same year.
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.
Publishing
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Colburn
paid £1,200 together for this and a scientific piece by Morgan's husband.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
157
A facsimile with introduction by Jenny McAuley
appeared in the Chawton House Library series in 2012.
Publishing
Catherine Crowe
The Adventures of a Beauty, the fourth novel by CC
, was published in three volumes by 13 March 1852.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1272 (1852): 297-98
It appeared after CC
had transferred to a new publisher, Colburn and Co.
Publishing
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Her current publisher, Colburn
, offered her a thousand pounds for this book. She thought she could get more, and went to Constable
, who, however, turned it down. The junior partner doubted her capacity...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Colburn
instigated this book and the travelling necessary to produce it, and paid £2,000 for it.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
161
It was simultaneously published in London and Paris.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
178
The Quarterly Review, mounting a vicious attack...
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...
Writing climate item
1 September 1832
The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley
was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley
Texts
Atkins, Anna. The Perils of Fashion. Colburn, 1852, 3 vols.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Protestant. Colburn, 1828, 3 vols.
Crowe, Catherine. The Adventures of a Beauty. Colburn, 1852, 3 vols.
Davenport, Selina. The Sons of the Viscount and the Daughters of the Earl. Colburn, 1813, 4 vols.
Gore, Catherine. Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, Colburn, 1837, 3 vols.
Hatton, Ann. Sicilian Mysteries. Colburn, 1812, 3 vols.
Hervey, Elizabeth, 1748 - 1820. Amabel; or, Memoirs of A Woman of Fashion. Colburn, 1814, 4 vols.
Holcroft, Fanny. The Wife and the Lover. Colburn, 1813, 3 vols.