Colburn

Connections

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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 Lady Charlotte Bury
Colburn paid £1,000 for the copyright.
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...
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
On 8 March she inscribed a copy to D'Orsay's elder sister and her husband. The journey described in the work had been made through France to Italy: a happy time written up years later while...
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.
v
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 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 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...

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...

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.
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.