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
Frances Trollope
FT
published her novel The Laurringtons; or, Superior People (in three volumes, without illustrations, and now very rare) not with Colburn
but with Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
. The verso of the first half-title...
Publishing
Anna Eliza Bray
She began writing the book on 18 September 1826 and completed it on 19 November of the following year.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 51
The book is based on historical records of the times it attempted to portray...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
In about 1822 HW
composed a work she called Sketches in the Round Room at the Opera House (a kind of dry run for her Memoirs), which depicts her former lovers under disguised names:...
Publishing
Anna Eliza Bray
AEB
recalls in her autobiography that the novel was published amid public debates on Roman Catholic emancipation. She maintains, however, that her intentions for writing the book were not to make political propaganda.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
202
She...
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, 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. 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
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. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 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
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. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
161
It was simultaneously published in London and Paris.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
178
The Quarterly Review, mounting a vicious attack...
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
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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...
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.
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.
Texts
Atkins, Anna. The Perils of Fashion. Colburn, 1852.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Protestant. Colburn, 1828.
Crowe, Catherine. The Adventures of a Beauty. Colburn, 1852.
Davenport, Selina. The Sons of the Viscount and the Daughters of the Earl. Colburn, 1813.
Gore, Catherine. Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, Colburn, 1837.
Hatton, Ann. Sicilian Mysteries. Colburn, 1812.
Hervey, Elizabeth. Amabel; or, Memoirs of A Woman of Fashion. Colburn, 1814.
Holcroft, Fanny. The Wife and the Lover. Colburn, 1813.
Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron. Jacob Bendixen. Translator Howitt, Mary, Colburn, 1852.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Marian Withers. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Merkland: A Story of Scottish Life. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside. Colburn, 1849.
Skene, Felicia. The Tutor’s Ward. Colburn, 1851, p. 2 vols.
Smythies, Harriet. The Matchmaker. Colburn, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851.