Colburn

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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, p. v - xxi.
v
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.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
This edition was published by Colburn . EOB 's excellent scholarly introduction dwells on recent literary achievements of women. She does not explicitly identify the British ones she refers to, but they are clearly (as...
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.
116: 51
The book is based on historical records of the times it attempted to portray...
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.
202
She...
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.
116: 52
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
203
The Athenæum...
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.
130
and my long plague.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
153
By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...
Textual Production Sarah Harriet Burney
It seems that SHB worked as editor on at least two editions of novels for the publisher Thomas Tegg . Colburn invited her to contribute to his New Monthly Magazine.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
lx, lxvi and n126
Clark, Lorna J. “The Hermitage: Late Gothic or Early Detective Fiction?”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC.
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.
420n5, 419
Henry Crabb Robinson struck the deal with Colburn
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 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 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
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.
98
It was lavishly produced, with plates and portraits.
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.

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).

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.