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
Frances Trollope
FT
published her novel The 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...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Colburn
paid £1,200 together for this and a scientific piece by Morgan's husband.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
157
A facsimile with introduction by Jenny McAuley
appeared in the Chawton House Library series in 2012.
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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...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Colburn
instigated this book and the travelling necessary to produce it, and paid £2,000 for it.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
161
It was simultaneously published in London and Paris.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
178
The Quarterly Review, mounting a vicious attack...
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...
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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...
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Elizabeth Strutt
Her next work of this kind, published by Colburn
, was again anonymous: Practical Wisdom; or, The Manual of Life, The Counsels of Eminent Men to their Children, 1824, an anthology of conduct-literature. Another...
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.
211
It was re-issued by Cambridge University Press
in 2011,online and in print-on-demand format. This work...
Textual Production
Felicia Skene
The Tutor's Ward, another novel by FS
(as the author of Wayfaring Sketches, Use and Abuse, etc.), appeared from Colburn
in two volumes.
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.
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Mary Shelley
Colburn
published MS
's fantasy novel The Last Man, as by the author of Frankenstein.
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.