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33-401: The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939 (537 issues). The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women". It was bound as six-monthly volumes, with the exception of Volume IV and the final volume, LXXXX (XC). Until June 1917 the monthly magazine had a standard cover design, showing

66-535: A Wife in Australia . Besides fiction, the firm also published educational material. They were involved in "popularizing general and specialized knowledge", publishing material such as Illustrated History of the World , Self-culture for All , The World's Inhabitants , Worthies of the World and more. Responding to the growth in railway lines and love for travel, Ward Lock and Bowden introduced their series of guides books to

99-465: A fire destroyed large parts of Warwick House, but by 1913, a new Warwick House was built, which was larger than the earlier establishment. In 1914, the firm celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. In the 1920s, the firm expanded its list of juvenile literature to children's fiction and coloring books. They also continued to publish crime and detective stories, with books by authors like E. Phillips Oppenheim , Edgar Wallace and Leslie Charteris . Dornford Yates

132-521: A magazine, before appearing in novelized form. R. D. Blackmore 's anonymous sensation novel Clara Vaughan (1864) was wrongly attributed to Braddon by some critics. Braddon wrote several works of supernatural fiction , including the pact with the devil story Gerard or The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1891), and the ghost stories "The Cold Embrace", "Eveline's Visitant" and "At Chrighton Abbey". From

165-447: A make-over, and the new covers dispensed with the sketch of Windsor Castle and the word "Magazine" and instead proclaimed it as "The July ( August, September, October etc. ) Windsor", with the issue and volume number shown below, and a different cover painting, usually featuring a young woman, each month. Subsequently the issue and volume number disappeared from the front page, and while the issue number, month and year continued to appear on

198-475: A new office at Amen Corner on Paternoster Row . When Ward and Lock established their office in Paternoster Row it was already the home of "some of the most famous publishers in the country": Rivington , Longman , William Blackwood and Nelsons were some of the famous publishers with offices in the neighborhood. Ward and Lock continued to publish books at popular prices and started to issue atlases. Some of

231-424: A partner in 1865 and the firm became Ward, Lock and Tyler. Tyler seems to have brought capital to the company and was a financial adviser. "Tyler remained with the firm for eight years, ceasing to be a partner in 1873, when it reverted to Ward and Lock." In 1866, London publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton was obliged (as a result of the financial Panic of 1866 ) to sell his titles and name to Ward Lock; this gave them

264-418: A three-way partnership. He had started working at Ward and Lock in 1869 and after he became a partner, the company became Ward, Lock and Bowden. "By the last decade on the 19th century, Messrs. Ward, Lock and Bowden were an important name on the publishing scene." Ebenezer Ward retired in 1883 and died in 1902. George Lock had died in 1891. None of Ward's children went into business. But Lock's family continued

297-596: Is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. Braddon began publishing the first chapters of her novel serially in July, 1861, in Robin Goodfellow, a literary magazine owned by Maxwell, and then later Sixpenny Magazine . Lady Audley's Secret was then republished as a novel and sold through nine editions in its first year of publication. It has remained in print since its publication and been dramatised and filmed several times, with

330-647: The 1930s onwards, these stories were often anthologised in collections such as Montague Summers 's The Supernatural Omnibus (1931) and Fifty Years of Ghost Stories (1935). Braddon also wrote historical fiction. In High Places depicts the youth of Charles I . London Pride focuses on Charles II . Mohawks is set during the reign of Queen Anne . Ishmael is set at the time of Napoleon III's rise to power. Publishing Braddon founded Belgravia magazine (1866), which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives and biographies, along with essays on fashion, history and science. It

363-583: The British Isles in 1896. They were priced at a shilling. As of 1954, some 136 Ward Lock travel guides , also known as Red Guides , existed. In 1900, the firm bought A.D. Innes and Company – famous for publishing sports books. In 1895, the company launched The Windsor Magazine – it introduced to the public a new style of magazine, that was for everyone, not just the upper or upper-middle classes. The magazine continued for nearly 45 years. The Windsor Magazine published novels in installments and also verse and

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396-626: The Embankment , before moving into an office in Salisbury Square . In 1946, Ward, Lock and Company moved into an office in 6, Chancery Lane . They also maintained offices at Norfolk Street , New Court, and Salisbury Square. In 1964, the business split in two, creating Ward Lock Educational Co Ltd, which was bought by Cassell Publishing in 1989. By the early 1990s, Cassell was acquired by the current owner, Orion Publishing Group . Some famous books were published by Ward Lock: The Windsor Magazine

429-670: The Ingram catalogue was Webster's Dictionary of the English Language , which Ward and Lock started reissuing with great success. By the 1870s, Webster's Dictionary had sold 140,000 copies. Other titles published by Ward and Lock around this time included books on travel, mechanics, and reprints of classical works, such as Homer 's Odyssey and Alexandre Dumas ' Pictures of Travel in the South of France . By 1861, Ward and Lock had achieved enough success to be able to afford more staff and move into

462-861: The Poet Laureate's works" and they published Tennyson's collected poems. The company's staff was now expanding and hence, in 1878, they built a new office called Warwick House. They published a lot of cheap reprints from here, as well as prize books for school in the 1880s. To cope with the demand of cheap reprints and prize books, the firm set up their own binding works on the top floor of Warwick House. In 1882, Ward and Lock started expanding to English-speaking markets in other countries. In 1882 offices were opened in New York City, and in 1884 in Melbourne . In 1885, Ward and Lock purchased WH Smith 's popular "Select Library of Fiction" series. In 1891, James Bowden came in to

495-443: The authors the company published included Mary Elizabeth Braddon , Charles Reade and George Augustus Sala . With the help of Ward and Lock, Sala had, in 1860, started a magazine called Temple Bar – a "London magazine for Town and Country Readers". The magazine became very famous and in response to public demand, Ward and Lock published it in volume form, the first volume appearing in 1861. Charles T. Tyler joined Ward and Lock as

528-522: The business. "After George Lock's death the firm was carried on for two years by James Bowden and John Lock under the title of Ward Lock, Bowden & Company. Then, in 1893, it was converted into a limited company with the title of Ward Lock and Bowden Ltd." In the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual (published in November) Arthur Conan Doyle 's first detective novel , A Study in Scarlet ,

561-481: The centre of the town, which was replaced by a block of flats in 1936, Lichfield Court . There is a plaque commemorating Braddon in Richmond parish church , which calls her simply "Miss Braddon". A number of nearby streets are named after characters in her novels – her husband was a property developer in the area. Writing Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous

594-599: The final volume, 90 (LXXXX or XC) which covered the last four issues, from June to September 1939. On 13 September 1939 (12 days after the outbreak of the Second World War ) The Times carried a news article stating "The proprietors and publishers of the Windsor Magazine announce that in the present difficult circumstances it has been decided to suspend publication as from the September number, just issued." Publication

627-520: The first stage adaptation opening in London by the winter of 1863. In addition to Lady Audley's Secret, Braddon's other best-known novel, Aurora Floyd , was published in 1863. Since it also featured a woman trapped in a bigamous relationship, Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret have been referred to as Braddon's "bigamy novels." Like Lady Audley, Aurora Floyd was first serialized in Temple Bar ,

660-400: The manager of the book department at Herbert Ingram and Company. In 1855, Herbert Ingram and Company folded and Ward and Lock, with some help from their business partners Thomas Dixon Galpin and George William Petter, bought some of Ingram's "publications, including the copyrights, wood-blocks, stereotype plates and engravings [that] were put up for sale." Perhaps, the most important book from

693-647: The naturalist Edmund Selous on 13 January 1886. In the 1920s, they were living in Wyke Castle , where Fanny founded a local branch of the Woman's Institute in 1923, of which she became the first president. Their second eldest son was the novelist William Babington Maxwell (1866–1939). Braddon died on 4 February 1915 in Richmond (then in Surrey) and is interred in Richmond Cemetery . Her home had been Lichfield House in

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726-460: The rights to his late wife's Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management . In 1870, Ward, Lock and Tyler acquired E. Moxon, Son and Company. Moxon was a publishing firm that had published Charles Lamb , William Wordsworth , Alfred, Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Robert Southey , Benjamin Disraeli and a successful volume of poems illustrated by J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard . The firm

759-478: The spine, the volume number was no longer quoted externally. Latterly the subject of the cover paintings became more varied, while in the mid-1930s the word "Magazine" re-appeared on the front cover for a number of issues before again being dropped. Writers for the magazine included the following: Artists whose illustrations were published in the magazine included the following: Volumes continued to run from December to May and June to November thereafter, except for

792-446: The title as "The Windsor Magazine", a sketch of Windsor Castle, and the volume number, month, and issue number in a panel at the foot. The December issues had this layout in colour, while the other months were on green paper with the magazine's name in a red block. Possibly in connection with the royal family's decision to become the House of Windsor in July 1917, that month the magazine had

825-437: Was at 158 Fleet Street. Fleet Street had an inviting architecture and atmosphere. It was full of businesses and people, coffee houses, taverns, and soup kitchens. It appealed to "publishers, printers, authors and tradesmen who occupied its houses and frequented its taverns." And it was always bustling with "innumerable trades, tradesmen and customers, coaches, wagons playhouses". Before founding Ward and Lock, Ward had worked as

858-545: Was befriended by Clara and Adelaide Biddle . They were only playing minor roles, but Braddon was able to support herself and her mother. Adelaide noted that Braddon's interest in acting waned as she began writing novels. Braddon met John Maxwell (1824–1895) , a publisher of periodicals, in April 1861 and moved in with him in 1861. However, Maxwell was already married to Mary Ann Crowley, with whom he had five children. While Maxwell and Braddon were living as husband and wife, Crowley

891-427: Was led by Edward Moxon who was an influential poet and publisher, who had died in 1858. By buying the works published by Moxon and Beeton, Ward, Lock and Tyler expanded their connections with many famous poets and authors of the time. In 1873, Tyler left the company and it reverted to being Ward and Lock. Ward and Lock's catalogue was now extensive. The acquisition of Moxon meant that the firm had "the right to publish

924-729: Was living with her family. In 1864, Maxwell tried to legitimize their relationship by telling the newspapers that they were legally married; "however, Richard Brinsley Knowles wrote to these papers, informing them that his sister-in-law and true wife of Maxwell was still living, thereby exposing Braddon's 'wife' status as a façade". Braddon acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married at St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street . Braddon had six children by him: Gerald, Fanny, Francis, William, Winifred Rosalie, and Edward Herry Harrington. Her eldest daughter, Fanny Margaret Maxwell (1863–1955), married

957-565: Was never resumed. Ward Lock %26 Co Ward, Lock & Co. was a publishing house in the United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion Publishing Group . Ebenezer Ward and George Lock started a publishing concern in 1854 which became known as "Ward and Lock". Based originally in Fleet Street , London it outgrew its offices and in 1878 moved completely to Salisbury Square, London. The firm's first office

990-452: Was one of Ward, Lock's most popular authors around this time. Around this time, Ward, Lock also published Mary Grant Bruce 's highly successful Billabong series of books, starting with A Little Bush Maid in 1911. The period between the two World Wars was tough on publishers. Warwick House was bombed twice during World War II , the second time, the building was almost completely destroyed. The firm temporarily relocated to Unilever House on

1023-541: Was one of the firm's biggest successes. James Bowden retired in 1897. By 1901, the firm went by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. Its motto was "full steam ahead". The firm published major authors, but also took a "middle-brow" approach to fiction. They published in book form the novels of authors which had been published in installments in The Windsor Magazine . In 1909, the Melbourne office celebrated 25 years. In 1911,

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1056-526: Was published monthly from January 1895 until September 1939 (537 issues). Mary Elizabeth Braddon Born in Soho , London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry because of his infidelities in 1840, when Braddon was five. When Braddon was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia , where he became Premier of Tasmania . Mary worked as an actress for three years, when she

1089-732: Was published, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson . Ward Lock and Bowden's business in New York and Melbourne were doing well and in the mid-1890s, the company opened an office in Toronto , Canada; however, this was closed in 1919. The books published by the firm reflected the changes in English life. These included Oscar Wilde 's The Picture of Dorian Gray , George Meredith 's The Tragic Comedians , Joseph Hocking's All Men are Liars , Guy Boothby 's In Strange Company and George Hutchinson's Winning

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