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William Dent (1792-1858), who married Bradbury's sister Mary in June 1825. On 6 July 1826 Bradbury married Sarah Price (c1803-1896) in his native Bakewell. The couple had five children: Letitia Jane Bradbury (1827-1839); the writer
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where
Bradbury was expected to follow his father into shoemaking. Instead, in 1813 he entered into a seven-year apprenticeship as a compositor under John Drury (1757-1815) and after his death his son John Wold Drury (1789-1850). By 1821 Bradbury had set up his own printing firm on Castle Hill in
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staff were present they were treated to 'the very best cooked dinner' Dickens had 'ever sat down to' in his life. In a letter to his wife
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installed a newly designed large, steam-driven cylinder printing press which they kept running twenty-four hours a day six days a week. For the first ten years of the firm's existence
Bradbury and Evans were printers, but they added publishing in 1841 after they acquired the satirical magazine
141:(1803-1870). Bradbury's long experience in all aspects of printing and his ability to personally oversee the most difficult of jobs earned Evan's respect, he later commenting on "Bradbury's excellent taste as a printer and his influence in raising the quality of printing in England."
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When
Bradbury's daughter Letitia Jane died in 1839 aged 11 Dickens wrote to him offering his 'earnest and sincere sympathy and warm regard', saying that he knew what Bradbury was going through as he himself had lost 'a young and lovely creature' in the person of his sister-in-law
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dinner for the first time in three years where all present were pleased to see him. He spoke of his gratitude at the recent improvement in his health, adding he had thought he would never be well enough to join his "dear old friends again." In
November 1865 William Bradbury and
498:"On the 15th inst., the mortal remains of Mr. W. Bradbury, the well-known printer and publisher, were interred at Highgate Cemetery. Amongst the mourners were his son, Mr. Wm. Bradbury; his partner, Mr. F. M. Evans, Mr. Mark Lemon, and several relatives, friends and workmen."
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When
Dickens left Chapman and Hall in 1844 Bradbury and Evans became his new publisher. From 1844 to 1859 they printed and published all of Dickens's new works, leading to great profits for both sides and the enhancement of Dickens's reputation. In 1847 they published
410:"... it did not occur to Bradbury and Evans to exceed their legitimate functions as proprietors and publishers, and to require the insertion of statements on a domestic and painful subject in the inappropriate columns of a comic miscellany ."
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replaced it. When she returned home and laid her 'luxuriant and gorgeous figure' between the sheets she sat up sharply and exclaimed, 'William, where his me bed? - This is not me bed - wot has 'append
William? -Wot ave you dun with me bed?’
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which
Bradbury regularly attended in the early years, and the magazine's staff became the nucleus of the owners' social circle. A keen gardener, in 1841 he co-founded perhaps the most famous horticultural periodical,
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370:"; but the initial court decision went in their favour. The government then tried amending the existing law, to duck public opinion, reversing the stand taken by the revenue on the definition of "newspaper".
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edited by Dickens was the occasion for a test case on newspaper taxation in 1851. Bradbury and Evans as publishers might have found themselves in the forefront of the ongoing campaign against "
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Because Bradbury and Evans kept their presses running through day and night they often took on large jobs for other printers and publishers with tight deadlines, sometimes printing
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and his brother Thomas, Bradbury's son William Hardwick Bradbury and his daughter Edith having married into the Agnew family. The firm then became Bradbury, Evans & Co.
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see Lincoln St Mary Magdalene Parish Records - Marriages & Banns (1811-1812). John Bradbury was a witness to the marriage of William Dobson and Ann Waits 22 July 1811
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accent, while Georgina Hogarth was able to imitation Mrs Bradbury with great accuracy. When on 20 December 1855 the Bradburys held a party at which Dickens,
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During the early 1860s Bradbury began to feel the effects of protracted periods of illness. In addition, he never got over the shock of his son
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became fond of Bradbury and his wife Sarah over the coming years, with Dickens nicknaming Bradbury 'Beau B' while lampooning his
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