biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1825–94)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Called the ‘boldest printer in Boston’, he co-founded a printing house (1855) and circulated a pirated edition of Thomas De Quincey's Klosterheim ahead of another publisher, and soon developed a substantial list. In 1863 he joined Robert Brothers and built that firm into a leading publisher with his astute acquisitions, including works of the popular (now-forgotten) English poet Jean Ingelow, inspirational novels by J H Ingraham, and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. He also commissioned Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women. |
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