Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press, 1991.
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Publishing | Margaret Holford | A second book by Margaret Holford the elder
, the 6-volume, epistolary Selima, or the Village Tale, A Novel, was advertised as just out, printed and sold for the authoress by Hookham
in London... |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | 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... |
Publishing | Margaret Holford | Hookham
continued to publish Holford (and probably her daughter) despite losing money on this novel. Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press, 1991. 17 |
Reception | Margaret Holford | Hookham
lost money by his dealings with the Holford family: with Selima, Gresford Vale, and Calaf. Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen A Literary Life. MacMillan Press, 1991. 17 |
Reception | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
tells a romantic story in her memoirs about this series of novels. A lady (still alive in 1824, resident near Windsor) admired them so warmly that she vainly badgered the kind, generous, worthy... |
Textual Production | Margaret Holford | Published by Hookham and Carpenter
, this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope
's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire... |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | |
Textual Production | Sarah Green | SG
published, with Hookham
, as The Author of the Private History of the Court of England, Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 323 Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues. no. 22 Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers. Editor Goulding, Christopher, Pickering and Chatto, 2010. 11 |
Textual Production | Susannah Gunning | SG
also published this year, with the Minerva Press
, Virginius and Virginia: A Poem, In Six Parts. From the Roman History: it was also listed as for sale by Hookham
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 5 (1792): 570 |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She thus, years later, doubly disparaged her own earliest effort. Rejected by Thomas Cadell
, then accepted by Thomas Hookham
, this work has not been firmly identified. Literary historian Janice Thaddeus
notes that a... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Of her anonymity she wrote, I chuse to be concealed. Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Letters on the Female Mind. Hookham and Carpenter, 1793, 2 vols. 1: 2 Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
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