Colburn

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Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published with Colburn what would now be called a coffee-table book: The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany; Vallombrosa,Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, with Historical and Legendary Notices.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, and Edward John Bury. The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany. John Murray.
title-page
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published the anonymous three-decker silver-fork novel Flirtation, her first book with Colburn .
Bury, Lady Charlotte. Flirtation. H. Colburn.
title-page
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
62
Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley ), The Smiths...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir , introduced MO to William Blackwood .
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB published with Colburn , using her name for the first time, The Divorced, a silver-fork novel which professes not to be fiction.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
487 (1837): 135
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
64
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL published, anonymously in three volumes through Henry Colburn , her first and most controversial novel, Glenarvon.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
184
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 433
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB , as the author of The History of a Flirt, published with Colburn another novel of fashionable life, The Manoeuvring Mother.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
766 (1842): 582
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL published, anonymously in two volumes, her second novel, Graham Hamilton, whose manuscript she had delivered to Colburn two years previously.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 538-9
Textual Production Jane Porter
JP 's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer.
Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees.
v
Revising for the tenth edition, 1819, she was struck by the continuing timeliness of this purpose: by the...
Textual Production Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
EMA used a different publisher, Henry Colburn , for her two-volume Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, dedicated to the Duke of York , as by Elizabeth M. B. A. B. Princess Berkeley.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33: 594
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn.
iv, title-page
Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER published another play with Colburn in 1848: The Revolt of Flanders, An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts .
Textual Production Anna Atkins
AA published her first novel, The Perils of Fashion, anonymously with Colburn ; it belongs to the silver-fork school, but is unconventional in offering no happy ending.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production L. E. L.
LEL 's third novel, Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides, was published through ColburnHenry Colburn , as by the author of The Improvisatrice.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Anne Damer
Colburn published, posthumously and anonymously Journal of the Heart, with a prefatory Some Account of AD 's life by Lady Charlotte Bury , identified as the authoress of Flirtation. Another edition, 1835, provides Damer's name.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press.
188
Textual Production L. E. L.
Duty and Inclination, LEL 's final completed novel, was published by Henry ColburnHenry Colburn as edited by Miss Landon.
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.

Timeline

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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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).

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.

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.
Trollope, Frances. Uncle Walter. Colburn, 1852.
Tytler, Sarah. The Kinnears. Colburn, 1852.