Edward Arnold (publisher)

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Edward Arnold
StatusDefunct
Founded1890
FounderEdward Augustus Arnold
Successor SAGE Publications, Bloomsbury Academic, Taylor & Francis
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon
Publication types Books, journals
Nonfiction topicsMedicine and nursing

Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd is a British publishing house with its head office in London. The firm had published books for over 100 years. It was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 1987 and became part of the Hodder Education group in 2001. [1] In 2006, Hodder Arnold sold its academic journals to SAGE Publications. [2] In 2009, Hodder Education sold its higher education lists in Media and Communications, History and English Literature, including many Arnold titles, to Bloomsbury Academic. [3] In 2012, Hodder Education sold its medical and higher education lines, including the remainder of Arnold, to Taylor & Francis. [4] Edward Arnold published books and journals for students, academics and professionals.

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Founder

Edward Augustus Arnold was born in Truro on 15 July 1857. His grandfather was Thomas Arnold and his uncle Matthew Arnold. He was educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford.

From 1883 he worked as a magazine editor for the firm of Richard Bentley and from 1887 edited Murray's Magazine for the John Murray publishing house. [5]

He set up his own publishing business in London's Covent Garden in January 1890. [6] Trading under his own name and later as Edward Arnold & Co., he specialized in educational books, exploration, mountaineering, Egyptology, and medical and scientific texts. [5] He published most of E. M. Forster's major works.

He died at Budleigh Salterton on 6 November 1942. [7]

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Footnotes

  1. "Home". www.hoddereducation.com.
  2. "SAGE Publications Acquires Hodder Arnold's Journals" . Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. Allen, Katie (9 July 2009). "Bloomsbury buys Hodder Education lists". The Bookseller. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  4. "Trillium Partners extends its educational and academic publishing M&A sector experience". Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Arnold, Edward". The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. January 2010. ISBN   9780198606536.
  6. "Bedford Street and Chandos Place Area: Bedford Street Pages 253-263 Survey of London: Volume 36, Covent Garden". British History Online. LCC 1970. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  7. Bryan Bennett, ‘Arnold, Edward Augustus (1857–1942)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 19 Jan 2014
  8. Kingfisher Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  9. Studies in English Literature, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  10. Studies in English Literature, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  11. Studies in French Literature, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

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