Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Agnes Strickland
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Publishing | Elizabeth Strickland | When the work reached its third volume ES
secured a rise in the sum due from Colburn
on receipt of each volume to £150. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Agnes Strickland |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Colburn
included in a supplement to his New Monthly MagazineSOLM
's riposte to the critics of her Italy: A Letter to the Reviewers of Italy. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 179 |
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 | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Reviewers did not attack Morgan on their old political grounds, since events were clearly moving towards an outcome not unlike what she had supported. Instead they attacked the book's morality. The Literary Gazette intoned, we... |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | The publisher, Henry Colburn
, sent a pretty bound copy to Sarah Harriet Burney
. She (unfortunately for the literary historian, since her opinion would be worth having) apparently thanked him for it before she... |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | She had first sighted Princess Victoria in 1836, had attended her Coronation, and was full of romantic feelings about her. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 70-2 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | On Godwin's death the publisher Henry Colburn
commissioned a memoir of him to be written by Mary Jane Godwin
with MS
's collaboration. They were still working on this project three or even four years... |
Textual Production | Ann Radcliffe | An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR
had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 247 |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | This is not to be confused with an anoymous publication bearing the same title, also in three volumes, published by Henry Colburn
in 1810 as (by implication) a sequel to Maria Edgeworth
's Tales of... |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | Margaret's brother Willie undertook to negotiate for her with London publishers. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 14 |
Textual Production | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | MEJ
issued with Henry ColburnThe Florist's Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, the only one of her books to go into a third edition. Again she published with... |
Textual Production | L. E. L. | |
Textual Production | L. E. L. | Duty and Inclination, LEL
's final completed novel, was published by Henry ColburnHenry Colburn
as edited by Miss Landon. 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. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
also became editor (through the good offices of Sydney Morgan
) of Henry Colburn
's Court Journal, which he launched in 1829. She later gave up this editorship in order to invest her... |
Travel | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan
spent a holiday in Germany (which she had declined to do in 1824 when Henry Colburn
had suggested that she write a book about it). Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 463 Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990. 11 Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 191 |
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