Henry Colburn

In her memoirs MCC wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably...

LCL negotiated hard with her publisher, Henry Colburn , and would have liked to put her name on her second work of fiction, but judged it more prudent not to. She offered him further projected...

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.

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...

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...

LEL 's third novel, Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides, was published through ColburnHenry Colburn , as by the author of The Improvisatrice.

Duty and Inclination, LEL 's final completed novel, was published by Henry ColburnHenry Colburn as edited by Miss Landon.

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...

She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her. When the queen became engaged Henry Colburn , too, was eager to (in Una Pope-Hennessy

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...

An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...

Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers.Colburn accepted the novel with alacrity, and paid her £150, leaving her to walk along the street with delightful elation, thinking that, after...

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...

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...

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).