Henry Colburn

Standard Name: Colburn, Henry

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Travel Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan spent a holiday in Germany (which she had declined to do in 1824 when Henry Colburn had suggested that she write a book about it).
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses.
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Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Colburn accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
This is not to be confused with an anoymous publication bearing the same title, also in three volumes, published by Henry Colburn in 1810 as (by implication) a sequel to Maria Edgeworth 's Tales of...
Textual Production Ann Radcliffe
An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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When the queen became engaged Henry Colburn , too, was eager to (in Una Pope-Hennessy
Textual Production Elizabeth Strickland
ES also became editor (through the good offices of Sydney Morgan ) of Henry Colburn 's Court Journal, which he launched in 1829. She later gave up this editorship in order to invest her...
Textual Production Maria Elizabetha Jacson
MEJ issued with Henry ColburnThe Florist's Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, the only one of her books to go into a third edition. Again she published with...
Textual Production L. E. L.
LEL 's third novel, Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides, was published through ColburnHenry Colburn , as by the author of The Improvisatrice.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
On Godwin's death the publisher Henry Colburn commissioned a memoir of him to be written by Mary Jane Godwin with MS 's collaboration. They were still working on this project three or even four years...
Textual Production L. E. L.
Duty and Inclination, LEL 's final completed novel, was published by Henry ColburnHenry Colburn as edited by Miss Landon.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Reception Agnes Strickland
At Colburn 's death in 1856 the copyright of the illustrated edition (for which the authors had received two thousand pounds) was sold at auction to Longman, Hurst and Blackett for £6,900.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Reception Elizabeth Hervey
The publisher, Henry Colburn , sent a pretty bound copy to Sarah Harriet Burney . She (unfortunately for the literary historian, since her opinion would be worth having) apparently thanked him for it before she...
Reception Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Reviewers did not attack Morgan on their old political grounds, since events were clearly moving towards an outcome not unlike what she had supported. Instead they attacked the book's morality. The Literary Gazette intoned, we...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
ME received nine hundred pounds for these volumes.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
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In 1810 Henry Colburn published another three volumes of tales which he implicitly asserted to be Edgeworth's sequel. Her publisher immediately protested.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
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Timeline

1806: Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in...

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1806

Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in London; his authors included many best-sellers.

1 February 1814: The first number appeared of the New Monthly...

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1 February 1814

The first number appeared of the New Monthly Magazine: published initially by Henry Colburn , it was said to be the earliest monthly to incorporate a miscellany of articles.

January 1817: Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical,...

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January 1817

Publisher Henry Colburn founded another periodical, the Literary Gazette, to go with his New Monthly Magazine.

1 January 1821: The first issue of the revised New Monthly...

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1 January 1821

The first issue of the revised New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal was published by Henry Colburn .

1826: William Saunders and Edward John Otley established...

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1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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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).

January 1853: The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was...

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January 1853

The Hurst and Blackett publishing firm was founded at 13 Great Marlborough Street, London, by Daniel Hurst and Henry Blackett on their buying Henry Colburn 's business.

December 1854: The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began...

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December 1854

The quality of the New Monthly Magazine began rapidly to decline when Henry Colburn 's control ceased.

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