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William Collins (12 October 1789 – 2 January 1853) was a Scottish schoolmaster, editor and publisher who founded William Collins, Sons, now part of HarperCollins. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] William Collins was born at Eastwood , Renfrewshire , on 12 October 1789. [ 3 ]
By 1841 Collins was established as a printer of Bibles. In 1846, Collins retired and his son Sir William Collins took over. In 1848, the firm developed as a publishing venture, specialising in religious and educational books. In 1856, the first Collins atlas was published. The company was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. in 1868. [3]
At first Collins intended his Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1747) to be jointly published with Warton's Odes on Various Subjects (1746) until Warton's publisher refused the proposal. Following their appearance, Gray commented in a letter that each poet "is the half of a considerable Man, & one the Counter-part of the other.
William Collins (publisher) (1789–1853), Scottish founder of the William Collins, Sons publishing house; William Collins (Lord Provost) (1817–1895), Scottish temperance movement activist; son of publisher William Collins. William Collins, Sons (est. 1819), Scottish publishing house, became part of HarperCollins in 1990, a subsidiary of News ...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The novel was published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons, [2] having previously been serialised as Who Killed Ackroyd? between July and September 1925 in the London Evening News.
The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel.It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre.
Books originally published by William Collins, Sons (1819—1990) in the U.K. — acquired by News Corporation in 1990, and merged into HarperCollins books Contents Top
Laura Glyde's interests have been neglected by her uncle, and her fortune of £20,000 (then an enormous sum of money) by default falls to her husband on her death. Collins dedicated this novel to Bryan Procter, poet and Commissioner for Lunacy, and was inspired by the case of Louisa Nottidge [citation needed], who was abducted and imprisoned ...