Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publishing house based in Boston, known for issuing works by leading New England authors and shaping the era’s literary culture.


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instanceOf American publishing company
publishing house
associatedWithCity Boston
associatedWithMovement American Romanticism
New England literary culture
associatedWithRegion New England
basedIn Boston, Massachusetts
collaboratedWith Atlantic Monthly
country United States
foundedBy James T. Fields
William Davis Ticknor
genreFocus essays
literary fiction
poetry
hasKeyPerson James T. Fields
William Davis Ticknor
headquarters Old Corner Bookstore, Boston
industry book publishing
languageOfPublication English
locatedIn New England
location Boston
notableEditor James T. Fields
notableFor influence on 19th-century American literary culture
publishing leading New England authors
operatedBookstore Old Corner Bookstore
predecessor William D. Ticknor and Company
publishedAuthor Alfred Tennyson
Charles Dickens
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
John Greenleaf Whittier
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
publishedWork Evangeline
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
The Scarlet Letter
Uncle Tom's Cabin
regionServed United Kingdom
United States
roleInLiterature major 19th-century American literary publisher
status defunct
successor Fields, Osgood & Co.
Houghton Mifflin Company
Houghton, Osgood and Company
James R. Osgood & Co.
timePeriod 19th century


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