Hutchinson Heinemann is a British publishing firm founded in 1887. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned by

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, the German publishing conglomerate.

History

Hutchinson Heinemann began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 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 as '' The Lady's Realm'', ''Adventure-story Magazine'', ''Hutchinson's Magazine'' and ''Woman''.Ashley, M. (2006). ''The Age of Storytellers. British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950''. London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press. In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" of

E. F. Benson Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer. Early life E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College (Berkshire), Wellington College in Berkshire, ...

in ''Hutchinson's Magazine'' and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first published

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...

Professor Challenger George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an ...

novels, five novels by mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and short stories by

Eden Phillpotts Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for ten years before studying for the stage ...

. In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books. In the 1930s, Hutchinson published

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, hist ...

's '' The Bulpington of Blup'' as well as the first English translations of

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

's ''

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'' (translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin) in 1936 and '' Despair'' (translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks. In 1947, the company launched the Hutchinson University Library book series.Hutchinson University Library – Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017. Among notable, non-fiction books, in 1959, Hutchinson & Co. published the first English edition of

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

's most famous work, ''

The Logic of Scientific Discovery ''The Logic of Scientific Discovery'' is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled ''Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnisth ...

'', first published as '' Logik der Forschung'' in 1934. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson. The new company acquired

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, Muller and White in 1987. Century Hutchinson was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, briefly known as Random Century (1990–1992), Century became an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing, a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK, which is in turn a division of

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ...

, which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly by

and Pearson plc and since 2019, just by Bertelsmann. In 2021, Penguin Random House merged

William Heinemann William Henry Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was an English publisher of Jewish descent and the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London. Early life On 18 May 1863, William Heinemann was born in Surbiton, Surrey, Englan ...

, Hutchinson and Windmill into Hutchinson Heinemann.

Book series

* Chestnut Library * Hutchinson's Booklover's Library * Hutchinson Pocket Special * Hutchinson's Pocket Guides * Hutchinson's Pocket Library * Hutchinson's Pocket Library: Non-Fiction * Hutchinson's Popular Pocket Library * Hutchinson Science SeriesHutchinson Science Library - Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022. * Hutchinson University Library * Radius Books

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 1887 establishments in England Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 1887

History

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