This collection precipitated an irritated exchange of letters between ME
and Rowland Hunter
. He, not for the first time, proposed to reduce his payment on the grounds that he was no longer making money...
Publishing
Maria Edgeworth
Her father had become so irritated with Rowland Hunter
that he urged her to take the Memoirs to John Murray
, but she did not do this. She earned seven hundred and fifty pounds from...
Publishing
Anna Letitia Barbauld
At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon
had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading...
Publishing
Maria Edgeworth
Rowland Hunter
paid less than for Edgeworth's earlier lesson volumes, to make up for his loss on Patronage.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
490-1
This did not exhaust the afterlife of these popular stories, or handbooks of science. ME
Publishing
Maria Edgeworth
The first (three-volume) edition was published by her new publishers, Baldwin and Cradock
. The second, four volumes, was published by Joseph Johnson in 1814. Joseph Johnson's nephew Rowland Hunter
offered ME
two thousand one...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
R. Hunter
, successor to Joseph Johnson
, issued ME
's father
's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Timeline
After June 1809: Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson died,...
Writing climate item
After June 1809
Progressive publisher Joseph Johnson
died, and his two nephews, John Miles
and Rowland Hunter
, took over the business.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.