Addison Wesley Longman

She wrote this novel while living in London. In her preface to the first edition (now extremely rare) she wrote that she had made no hesitation to accept truth as the helpmate of...

The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...

AO published with LongmanSimple Tales in four volumes; this first story collection (which was marketed both to children and adults) reached a fourth London edition by 1815.

MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...

The publication was initially turned down by Cadell and Davies . The two-volume edition was published by Sampson Low in 1800. They published a third volume in 1801, and two further volumes followed from Longman and Rees

She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey , hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray

FW (as an Englishwoman) published with Longman and Rees of LondonViews of Society and Manners in America, In a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, during the...

After receiving an invitation from the publisher Longman in early 1932 to do this life, she wrote to the Webbs and was invited to discuss the project. They said they would not attempt to control...

A frontispiece is a handsome picture of the steam yacht Sunbeam, under full sail. Longman initially printed one thousand copies priced at a guinea each; this whole print run was taken up by Mudie's Circulating Library

This marks her abandonment of a series of other unsatisfactory publishers for the firm of Hookham . Thomas Hookham (who concentrated on fashionable bookselling but also published a few books a year) issued five of...

JP was seen as the senior partner in the paired agreements which she and her sister made with Longman on 1 June 1808. Each was to deliver a novel within a year; Jane was to...

Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York . This dedication voices IK 's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...

The fifth edition, 1808, has a frontispiece engraving of the painting by her husband which is now at Chawton House Library . It went through six editions of 1,000 to 1,500 copies in the years...

The Critical thought this probably inspired by recent books of travels to Greece. In fact the archaeologist William Gell had suggested that Owenson should write about the Greek quest for...

Publisher John Murray rejected the manuscript, but it was soon accepted by Longmans , with an agreement that gave the author and her husband half the profits after publishing expenses were covered. Longmans then delayed...