Hutchinson was a British publishing firm which operated from 1887 until 1985, when it underwent several mergers. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned by

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, the German publishing conglomerate.

History

Hutchinson 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 ''The Lady's Realm'' was a British women's magazine published from 1896 until 1914, possibly until 1915. It primarily targeted upper-class readers as well as an aspirational middle-class audience, featuring photographs, poems, fiction, and columns ...

'', ''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, archaeologist and short story writer. Early life E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College (Berkshire), Wellington College in Berkshir ...

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 Ho ...

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

novels, five novels by mystery writer

Harry Stephen Keeler Harry Stephen Keeler (November 3, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a prolific but little-known American fiction writer, who developed a cult following for his eccentric mysteries. He also wrote science fiction. Biography Born in Chicago in 1 ...

, 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 a ...

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

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
Revised 18 May 2015. ''

The Bulpington of Blup ''The Bulpington of Blup'' is a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells. It is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells's acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. The inner ...

'' as well as the first English translations of

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bo ...

'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 cl ...

'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 Erkenntnisthe ...

'', first published as ''

Logik der Forschung ''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 ...

'' 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 - 92), Century became an

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of Cornerstone Publishing, a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK, which is in turn a division of

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, which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly by

and

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and since 2019, just by Bertelsmann.

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

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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