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Arthur Hall was a nineteenth-century publisher and writer based in Paternoster Row, London.

Paternoster Row Former street in London

Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, with booksellers operating from the street. Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade. It was part of an area also called St. Paul's Churchyard.

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In 1848 he took over Sharpe's London Magazine from T. B. Sharpe, who had founded it in 1845 as a weekly publication. Hall made it a monthly, and moved it upmarket; the editor at the time was Frank Smedley. [1] It appeared as Journal rather than Magazine from 1849 to 1852. [2] At this time Hall went into business with George Virtue, forming Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. [3] In the 1850s the firm published the "Hofland Library", a large collection of the juvenile works of Barbara Hofland. [4]

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George C. Virtue was a 19th-century London publisher, well known for printing engravings. His publishing house was located at 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London, EC.

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Barbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. She was asked by John Soane to write a description of his still extant museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields.

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Timothy Hall (c.1637–1690) was bishop of Oxford in the reign of James II of England.

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Notes

  1. ↑ John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 569; Google Books.
  2. ↑ Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (2009), p. 569; Google Books.
  3. ↑ University of Guelph page. Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby, Popular Children's Literature in Britain (2008), pp. 117–8; Google Books.

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