Colburn

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. The Athenæum...

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

Colburn instigated this book and the travelling necessary to produce it, and paid £2,000 for it. It was simultaneously published in London and Paris. The Quarterly Review, mounting a vicious attack...

While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish and my long plague. By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...

Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...

She wrote The Renunciation in Florence, and finished it by December 1832. The Hermitage, one-third written at Florence, was complete by January 1838.Henry Crabb Robinson struck the deal with Colburn

Her great-nephew suggested that she wrote this book four years before it appeared. The first edition (with two coloured plates and plans for flowerbeds) mentioned her address (Somersal Hall) as well as her...

She returned to Colburn for this volume; the later ones which she planned never materialised. When Colburn died fifteen years later she recorded her regret that they had recently quarrelled, and had not parted friends...

This work, which somewhat uncomfortably mixes romance with travel narrative and cultural guide, was influenced by de Staël 's Corinne. Initially put out by a printer named Thomas at his own expense, it was...

Margaret Wilson (later MO ) published her first novel, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of SunnysideWritten by Herself, in three volumes, with Colburn of London.

Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.Colburn accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...

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. With Ouida's...

Colburn paid £1,000 for the copyright. It was lavishly produced, with plates and portraits.

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...

The Adventures of a Beauty, the fourth novel by CC , was published in three volumes by 13 March 1852. It appeared after CC had transferred to a new publisher, Colburn and Co.