- Burns & Oates
Burns & Oates is a British publishing house which now exists as an imprint of Continuum. It was founded by James Burns in 1835, originally as a bookseller. Burns was of
Presbyterian background and he gained a reputation as aHigh Church publisher, producing works by theTractarians .In 1847 his business was put in jeopardy when he converted to
Catholicism , but the firm was fortunate to receive the support ofJohn Henry Newman , who chose the firm to publish many of his works. There is a story that Newman's novel "Loss and Gain " was written specifically to assist Burns.After a while trading as Burns, James Burns took a partner, renaming the company Burns & Lambert. In 1866 they were joined by a younger man, William Wilfred Oates, making the company Burns, Lambert & Oates and later Burns & Oates. Oates was another Catholic convert, and had previously co-founded the publishing house of Austin & Oate's based in Bristol. Burns & Oates passed to his son Wilfred Oates, whose sister
Mother Mary Salome became one of the firm’s most successful authors.In the USA the company's agent was
The Catholic Publications Society of New York.Bibliography
*Wilfrid Wilberforce, "The House of Burns and Oates". London: Burns and Oates, 1908.
*"Early Chapters in the History of Burns and Oates". London: privately printed, 1949.External links
* [http://www.continuumbooks.com/AboutUs/default.aspx?ImprintID=1&CountryID=2 Official webpage] .
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