Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Publishing | Germaine de Staël | GS
left two unfinished works at her death which were published posthumously. Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la révolution françoise, 1817, appeared in English as Considerations on the Principal Events of the French... |
Publishing | Stella Gibbons | |
Publishing | Martin Ross | This was the first book they published with Longmans
, in an edition of 3,000. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 126 Geraldine Cummins lists the number of first edition copies printed as 1,500. Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952. 254 |
Publishing | Charlotte Dacre | The title-page gives her Dacre name, but says she is better known as Rosa Matilda, and as author of her two works of 1805. The archives of Longman's
, the novel's publisher, call her... |
Publishing | Mary Renault | |
Publishing | Emily Davies | Later that year Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green
published the address in pamphlet form. 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. |
Publishing | Mary Renault | When MR
received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane
, the hardback division of Penguin
. After the death of... |
Publishing | Rachel Hunter | This one was shorter again: two volumes. RH
's London publisher was Longman
. A later edition by the Minerva Press
bore no date, but was advertised in 1812. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. 467 |
Publishing | Jane West | She addressed this book of advice to one of her sons. In more than one edition, Longmans
sold 4,500 copies of it. Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 75 |
Reception | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Reception | Barbara Hofland | Longman
sold off some of their BH
copyrights to A. K. Newman
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 40 |
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, 1940. 239 |
Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw
had reached many thousands of people... |
Textual Features | Stella Gibbons | |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's... |
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