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
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...
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, p. v - xxi.
v
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
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
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
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
Frances Trollope
FT
published her novelThe 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
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
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...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
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.
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1150 (1849): 1144
Publishing
Fredrika Bremer
These two books appeared in English the same year, Brothers and Sisters (which had been delayed, FB said, by her laziness), before 10 June. Bremer had changed her publishing arrangements: a different Swedish publisher undertook...
Publishing
Anna Brownell Jameson
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...
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
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...
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.