Bradbury and Evans

Bradbury and Evans (est.1830) was an English printing and publishing business founded by William Bradbury (1799^[1]-1869) and Frederick Mullett Evans (1804^[2]-1870) in London.^[3][4] For the first ten years they were printers, then added publishing in 1841 after they purchased Punch magazine.^[3][4] As printers they did work for Joseph Paxton,^[5] Edward Moxon and Chapman and Hall (publishers of Charles Dickens).^[3] Dickens left Chapman and Hall in 1844 and Bradbury and Evans became his new publisher.^[3] Bradbury and Evans published William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair in 1847 (as a serial), as well as most of his longer fiction.^[3][4] The firm operated from offices at no.11 Bouverie Street, no.85 Fleet Street, and no.4-14 Lombard Street, London (now Lombard Lane).^[6][7] After Bradbury and Evans broke with Dickens in 1859, they founded the illustrated literary magazine Once A Week, which competed with Dickens' new All The Year Round (formerly Household Words).^[3] Among the artists who contributed illustrations to the firm's publications: John Leech^[8] and John Tenniel. In 1861 Evans' daughter, Bessie Evans, married Dickens' son, Charles Dickens, Jr.. The founders' sons, William Hardwick Bradbury (1832–1892) and Frederick Moule Evans (1832–1902), continued the business.^[9][10]

See also

• Sir William Agnew, 1st Baronet, a partner of the firm

References

1. England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910.
2. General Register Office: Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry.
3. John Sutherland (1989). "Bradbury and Evans". Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction.
4. Bradbury and Evans at Victorian Web, last accessed January 2011.
5. Paxton, Sir Joseph. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. London Bradbury and Evans for Orr and Smith and W. S. Orr and Co, 1834-1849.
6. Post Office London Directory. 1852. p. 628 – via University of Leicester, Library.
7. John Timbs (1867), "Whitefriars", Curiosities of London (2nd ed.), London: J.C. Hotten, OCLC 12878129
8. "Exhibition of Pictures by Mr. John Leech", Saturday Review, May 24, 1962, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly
9. Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). "F.M. Evans". Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
10. Frederic Boase (1908). Modern English Biography. Netherton and Worth.

Further reading

• "Works Published by Bradbury and Evans", Athenaeum, 1845
• "General Publishers". The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London. Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 1851.
• Works Published by Bradbury and Evans, 1860
• Obituary of William Hardwick Bradbury (1832-1892), son of the firm's founder. He continued the business as Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1865
• Arthur William à Beckett (1903). À Becketts of "Punch": Memories of Father and Sons. A. Constable and Co.
• Gerald G. Grubb (1951). "Dickens and the 'Daily News': Preliminaries to Publication". Nineteenth-Century Fiction 6. JSTOR 3044173. (describes Bradbury and Evans' interaction with Charles Dickens)
• Gerald G. Grubb (1952). "Dickens and the 'Daily News': Resignation". Nineteenth-Century Fiction 7. JSTOR 3044134. (describes Bradbury and Evans' interaction with Charles Dickens)
• Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). "Bradbury and Evans". Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
• Paul Schlicke (2011). "Bradbury and Evans". The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-964018-8.

External links

• Bradbury and Evans at Victorian Web
• Portraits of Bradbury, Evans, and sons
• Morgan Library. Letter from Dickens to F.M. Evans, 1849
• UK National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of "Frederick Evans, associate of Charles Dickens"
• Oxford University, Bodleian Library. Correspondence of Bradbury and Evans, mainly relating to Punch