Archibald Constable

Standard Name: Constable, Archibald

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Anna Seward
AS had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray in London, who advised him against...

Timeline

1826: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge...

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1826

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded by Lord Brougham .
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Bennett, Scott. “Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading”. The Victorian Periodical Press: Soundings and Samplings, edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, University of Leicester Press; University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 225-57.
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Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6.
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1827: Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series...

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1827

Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series of affordable books, was established.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
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Bennett, Scott. “Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading”. The Victorian Periodical Press: Soundings and Samplings, edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff, University of Leicester Press; University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 225-57.
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Texts

Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols.