Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
4
, 1991, pp. 313-43. 322
James Roberts
Standard Name: Roberts, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Mary Leapor | The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML
was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10. |
| Publishing | Delarivier Manley | She apparently produced a large part of her manuscript in a week, and the rest in a couple of months, having entered into negotiations with Curll
in response to his threat that he was already... |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Its banner proclaimed: To be continued as long as the Author thinks fit, and the Publick likes it. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993. 105 |
| Textual Production | May Drummond | A preface (dated the 26th of the third month, that is, in the Quaker system of naming the months, May) was supplied by the Reading publisher, Jonathan Nelson
. Copies were sold in London by... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The first part of EH
's libertine novel The Masqueraders appeared without her name (through trade publisher James Roberts
, like the several other novels which followed it), but was very quickly identified by a... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | James Roberts
published another anonymous work by EH
on 11 August this year, 1724: The Arragonian Queen: A Secret History, an adventure-romance set in the eighth century. It was identified as hers by a... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | EH
followed this on 30 September with Letters from the Palace of Fame. Written by a First Minister in the Regions of Air, to an Inhabitant of this World. Translated from an Arabian Manuscript... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | This year EH
published four new works or instalments of works. Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii. xl |
Timeline
November 1713: James Roberts, the most prolific trade publisher...
Writing climate item
November 1713
James Roberts
, the most prolific trade publisher in London in the earlier eighteenth century, took over the business from his mother-in-law, Abigail Baldwin
, herself a successful publisher.
Treadwell, Michael. “London Trade Publishers 1675-1750”. The Library, Vol.
6th ser. 4
, 1982, pp. 99-134. 106, 110, 117, 122
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