Colburn

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Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
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...
Publishing Ann Lady Fanshawe
Ann Fanshawe 's Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, begun in 1676, were published for the first time, by Henry Colburn , from an original manuscript, anonymously edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas .
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.
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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...

Writing climate item

3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).
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...

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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.
Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron. Jacob Bendixen. Translator Howitt, Mary, Colburn, 1852, 3 vols.
Howitt, William, and Mary Howitt. The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe. Colburn, 1852, 2 vols.
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Marian Withers. Colburn, 1851, 3 vols.
Oliphant, Margaret. Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans. Colburn, 1851.
Oliphant, Margaret. Merkland: A Story of Scottish Life. Colburn, 1851, 3 vols.
Oliphant, Margaret. Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside. Colburn, 1849, 3 vols.
Skene, Felicia. The Tutor’s Ward. Colburn, 1851, p. 2 vols.
Smythies, Harriet. The Matchmaker. Colburn, 1842, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Uncle Walter. Colburn, 1852, 3 vols.
Tytler, Sarah. The Kinnears. Colburn, 1852, 3 vols.