Charles Heath

Standard Name: Heath, Charles

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Publishing	Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington	Blessington edited the gift book until its proprietor, Charles Heath , died in 1847, insolvent and owing her nearly seven hundred pounds. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 150 Her work on the annuals earned her something between two and three thousand pounds. Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 16 Mar. 2001.
Textual Production	Catherine Gore	CG edited Charles Heath 's gift book the Picturesque Annual. Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972. 257

Timeline

1828

The first issue of the successful annual gift book The Keepsake appeared; lavish production and distinguished contributors raised the price of this and other such publications to a guinea.

Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.

239-41, 280

Quarterly Review. J. Murray.

381

Late 1848

Following the death on 18 November of Charles Heath , engraver and publisher, the annual Heath's Book of Beauty became the Book of Beauty or Royal Gallery; however, it soon ceased publication.

Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.

216

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Texts

Hofland, Barbara et al. A Descriptive Account of the Mansion and Gardens at White-Knights. Printed for his Grace the Duke of Marlborough by W. Wilson, 1819.