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Hutchinson Heinemann
Hutchinson & Co. logo
Parent companyPenguin Random House
Founded1887;137 years ago(1887)
FounderGeorge Hutchinson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/cornerstone/hutchinson-heinemann

Hutchinson Heinemannis a British publishing firm founded in 1887. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned byBertelsmann,the German publishing conglomerate.

History[edit]

Hutchinson Heinemann began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,[1]an English book publisher, founded in London in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son,Walter Hutchinson(1887–1950). Hutchinson's published books and magazines such asThe Lady's Realm,Adventure-story Magazine,Hutchinson's MagazineandWoman.[2]

In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" ofE. F. BensoninHutchinson's Magazineand then in collections in a number of books. The company also first publishedArthur Conan Doyle'sProfessor Challengernovels, five novels by mystery writerHarry Stephen Keeler,and short stories byEden Phillpotts.In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books.[2]In the 1930s, Hutchinson publishedH. G. Wells'sThe Bulpington of Blupas well as the first English translations ofVladimir Nabokov'sCamera Obscura(translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin) in 1936 andDespair(translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.[3]

In 1947, the company launched the Hutchinson University Library book series.[4]

Among notable, non-fiction books, in 1959, Hutchinson & Co. published the first English edition ofKarl Popper's most famous work,The Logic of Scientific Discovery,first published asLogik der Forschungin 1934.

The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson. The new company acquiredBlond,Muller and White in 1987. Century Hutchinson was folded into the BritishRandom House Groupin 1989,[5]briefly known as Random Century (1990 - 92),[6]Century became animprintof Cornerstone Publishing,[7]a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK,[8]which is in turn a division ofPenguin Random House,which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly byBertelsmannandPearson plc[9]and since 2019, just by Bertelsmann.[10]In 2021, Penguin Random House mergedWilliam Heinemann,Hutchinson and Windmill into Hutchinson Heinemann.[11]

Book series[edit]

  • Chestnut Library[12]
  • Hutchinson's Booklover's Library[13]
  • Hutchinson Pocket Special
  • Hutchinson's Pocket Guides
  • Hutchinson's Pocket Library[14]
  • Hutchinson's Pocket Library: Non-Fiction[15]
  • Hutchinson's Popular Pocket Library
  • Hutchinson Science Series[16]
  • Hutchinson University Library[4]
  • Radius Books

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) {WorldCat Identities,worldcat.org. Retrieved on 11 September 2017.
  2. ^abAshley, M. (2006).The Age of Storytellers. British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950.London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press.
  3. ^Philips, Rodney."The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov".New York Public Library. Archived fromthe originalon 21 February 2011.Retrieved18 March2011.
  4. ^abHutchinson University Library – Book Series List,publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  5. ^McDOWELL, EDWIN (8 June 1989)."THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Random House to Buy British Book Publisher".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved20 January2018.
  6. ^"Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Limited".Baskerville Books.Retrieved18 July2021.
  7. ^"Cornerstone".www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 15 August 2017.Retrieved15 August2017.
  8. ^"Our Publishers".www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk.Retrieved15 August2017.
  9. ^Richard Cohen(28 June 1998)."Guess Who's on the Backlist, Bookend".The New York Times.
  10. ^Adria Calatayud,"Pearson CEO to Retire and company will sell remaining Penguin Random House stake",MarketWatch. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  11. ^https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ahmed-and-conford-join-hutchinson-and-william-heinemann-merge-while-arthur-departs-1239360?utm_source=pocket_saves
  12. ^Chestnut Library (Hutchinson's Books for Young People/Hutchinson) - Book Series List,publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  13. ^Booklover's Library,seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  14. ^Hutchinson's Pocket Library,seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  15. ^Hutchinson Pocket Library Non Fiction,satiche.org.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  16. ^Hutchinson Science Library - Book Series List,publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.

External links[edit]

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