Henry Colburn

The Adventures of a Beauty, the fourth novel by CC , was published in three volumes by 13 March 1852. It appeared after CC had transferred to a new publisher, Colburn and Co.

Sydney Morgan 's long essay Absenteeism first appeared in Colburn 's New Monthly Magazine; it was issued in book form the following year.

Aware she was sailing close to the wind in depicting the sexual irregularity of fashionable Dublin society, Morgan consulted Lady Cloncurry (whose husband had divorced his first wife for adultery). Lady Cloncurry gave it as...

MS had begun The Last Man two years earlier, motivated in part by a desire to express her sense of loss and solitude after her husband's death. On 14 May 1824 she wrote, The last...

Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of...

She returned to Colburn for this volume; the later ones which she planned never materialised. When Colburn died fifteen years later she recorded her regret that they had recently quarrelled, and had not parted friends...

Henry Colburn exploited the publicity created by the association of CG 's Mrs. Armytage with a sensational murder: it is said that he promptly re-issued the novel.

A European edition of the first title appeared (at Brussels and Frankfurt) in the same year as the London one. The reprint for Colburn 's New Novelists edition featured an engraved portraitof CG .

In the introduction, AMH explains that she disliked the title chosen by her publisher Henry Colburn , because she felt it too closely resembled John Wilson 's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life.

It appeared as a tract that same year. She declined the invitation from publisher Henry Colburn to write a history specifically of Jewish persecution in England, later explaining to Camilla Crosland that [w]e are so...

It sold only four hundred copies over a two-year period. Blessington's publisher, Henry Colburn , lost £40 on the book, and declined to publish further work by her. She nevertheless persevered with her fiction...

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

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...

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...

ME received nine hundred pounds for these volumes. In 1810 Henry Colburn published another three volumes of tales which he implicitly asserted to be Edgeworth's sequel. Her publisher immediately protested.