List of Victorian publishers

From intro to John Sutherland 1976, Victorian Novelists and Publishers

List of major publishing houses:

• Richard Bentley
  • Melville
  • Dickens
  • Collins
  • Trollope
  • GPR James
  • Reade
• Blackwood's
  • Eliot
• Smith, Elder and Co.
  • also Eliot
    • The Mill on the Floss (1860)
  • Bronte(s)
    • Shirley
  • Wives and Daughters
  • Armadale
• Macmillan's
• Chapman and Hall
  • Early Dickens
  • Innovated the monthly shilling number (1836), Xmas book (1843), cheap collective reissue of living novelists (1847)
• Bradbury and Evans
  • Pickwick
  • Punch
  • Thackeray
• Longman's
  • Waverley
  • Disraeli's Endymion

Minor (or non literary) houses:

• Tinsley Brothers
• Hurst and Blackett
• TC Newby
• Sampson Low and Marston
• Saunders and Otley
• Routledge
• And the ~90 published of penny-installment fiction (cf. Louis James Fiction for the Working Man)