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Longman was a publishing company founded in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England in 1724. It is now an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of Pearson Education
Pearson Education

Pearson Education is an international Publishing of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools.Pearson Education is headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA....
.

754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman(2) (1730-1797), and the title of the firm became T. and T. Longman. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman(2) became sole proprietor. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner; in the same year, Thomas Brown (c.






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Longman was a publishing company founded in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England in 1724. It is now an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of Pearson Education
Pearson Education

Pearson Education is an international Publishing of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools.Pearson Education is headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA....
.

Second and third generations

In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman(2) (1730-1797), and the title of the firm became T. and T. Longman. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman(2) became sole proprietor. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner; in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice.

Longman(2) had three sons. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman(3) (1771-1842) succeeded to the business. In 1804 two more partners were admitted, and the former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811; in 1824 the title of the firm was changed to Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.

In 1799 Longman(3) purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray
Lindley Murray

Lindley Murray , grammarian, was born in a house near his father's mill, just north of Harper Tavern in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50,000 copies. About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey
Robert Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic poetry school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843....
's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
's Lyrical Ballads, from Joseph Cottle of Bristol. He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929....
, which was started in 1802.

In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irishman poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer....
 for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £3000; and when Archibald Constable
Archibald Constable

Archibald Constable , was a Scotland publisher, bookseller and stationer.He was born at Carnbee Parish, Scotland, Fife, as the son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie....
 failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929....
. They issued in 1829 Lardner
Dionysius Lardner

Dionysius Lardner , was an Ireland scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the, 133-volume, Cabinet Cyclopedia....
’s Cabinet Encyclopaedia, and in 1832 McCulloch
John Ramsay McCulloch

John Ramsey McCulloch was widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823, was appointed the first professor of political economy at University College London in 1828....
's Commercial Dictionary.

Fourth and fifth generations

Thomas Norton Longman(3) died on August 29 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas(4) (1804-1879) and William Longman (1813-1877), in control of the business in Paternoster Row. Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which in a few years had a sale of 40,000 copies.

The two brothers were well known for their literary talent. Thomas Longman(4) edited a beautifully illustrated edition of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, and William Longman was the author of several important books, among them a History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St Paul (1869) and a work on the History of the Life and Times of Edward III (1873). In 1863 the firm took over the business of Mr JW Parker, and with it Fraser's Magazine
Fraser's Magazine

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal, which initially took a strong Tory line in politics. It was founded by Hugh Fraser and William Maginn in 1830 and loosely directed by Maginn under the name Oliver Yorke until about 1840....
, and the publication of the works of John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill , United Kingdom philosopher, political economy, civil servant and Parliament of the United Kingdom, was an influential liberalism thinker of the 19th century....
 and JA Froude
James Anthony Froude

'James Anthony Froude' was a controversial England historian, novelist, biography, and literary editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of F...
; while in 1890 they incorporated with their own all the publications of the old firm of Rivington
Charles Rivington

Charles Rivington , Kingdom of Great Britain publisher, eldest son of Thurston Rivington, was born at Chesterfield, England, in 1688.Coming to London as apprentice to a bookseller, he took over in 1711 the publishing business of Richard Chiswell , and, at the sign of the Bible and the Crown in Paternoster Row, he carried on a business almos...
, established in 1711. The family control of the firm (later Longmans, Green & Co.) was continued by Thomas Norton Longman(5), son of Thomas Longman(4).

1900 onwards

In December, 1940, Longman's Paternoster Row offices were destroyed in The Blitz
The Blitz

The Blitz was the sustained bombing of United Kingdom by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in World War II. While the "Blitz" hit many towns and cities across the country, it began with the bombing of London for 57 consecutive nights ....
, along with most of the company's stock. The company survived this crisis, however, and became a public company in 1948. Longman was acquired by the media conglomerate Pearson
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
 in 1968. In 1972, Mark Longman, last of the Longman family to run the company, died.

Longman continues to exist as an imprint of Pearson Education
Pearson Education

Pearson Education is an international Publishing of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools.Pearson Education is headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA....
, under the name Pearson Longman. Pearson Longman specializes in English, including English as a second or foreign language, history,economics, philosophy, political science, and religion.

See also

  • Badminton Library
    Badminton Library

    The Badminton Library, called in full The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort ....


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