Harper & Brothers

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business enterprise publishing house

Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	business enterprise → publishing house →
basedIn	Manhattan →
country	United States of America →
dissolved	1962 →
era	19th century → 20th century →
familyBusiness	Harper family →
foundedBy	Fletcher Harper → Harper family → James Harper → John Harper → Joseph Wesley Harper →
headquartersLocation	New York City →
inception	1817 →
industry	publishing →
location	New York City →
mergedInto	Harper & Row →
nameChange	Harper & Brothers →
nameChangeDate	1833 →
notableAuthorPublished	Charles Dickens → Charlotte Brontë → Emily Brontë → Henry James → Henry Wadsworth Longfellow → Herman Melville → James Fenimore Cooper → Lewis Carroll → Mark Twain → Noah Webster → Washington Irving → William Makepeace Thackeray →
notableFor	influential historical publications → influential literary publications →
notablePublication	Harper’s Magazine →
originalName	J. & J. Harper →
product	books → magazines → periodicals →
publisherOf	Harper’s Bazaar → Harper’s Magazine → Harper’s New Monthly Magazine → Harper’s Weekly → educational books → fiction → historical works → literary works → non-fiction → reference works →
roleIn	development of American publishing industry →
successor	Harper & Row → HarperCollins →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Harper's Weekly → Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy → Profiles in Courage → Symbols, Signals and Noise → The Enemy Within → The Intelligent Investor → Washington Square →	publisher
Harper & Row → Harper's Magazine →	foundedBy
Harper’s Bazaar → Moby-Dick →	originalPublisher
Harper → Harper & Row →	predecessor
John White Alexander →	employer
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →	firstPublisher
Harper's Magazine →	formerPublisher
Harper & Row →	hasFormerName
Harper & Brothers →	nameChange
Harper's Weekly →	ownedBy