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Wilkinsburg

(Encyclopedia)Wilkinsburg, residential borough (1990 pop. 21,080), Allegheny co., SW Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh; settled c.1800, inc. 1887. There is some light manufacturing, including book publishing and printing...

Watford

(Encyclopedia)Watford, borough and district (1991 pop. 109,503), Hertfordshire, SE England. Watford is mainly residential with many kinds of shops. The city is renowned for its publishing and produces many of Engla...

Sedgwick, Ellery

(Encyclopedia)Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872–1960, American editor, b. New York City. As editor (1908–38) of the Atlantic Monthly and president of its publishing company, he continued the literary traditions of the mag...

Montrouge

(Encyclopedia)Montrouge môNro͞ozhˈ [key], industrial suburb S of Paris (1990 pop. 38,333), Hauts-de-Seine dept., N central France. Papermaking, publishing, construction, aeronautics, and the manufacture of surgi...

Strongsville

(Encyclopedia)Strongsville, city (1990 pop. 35,308), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a residential suburb of Cleveland; settled 1816, inc. 1927. There is text-book publishing and light manufacturing. The city grew significa...

Hone, William

(Encyclopedia)Hone, William, 1780–1842, English writer and bookseller. He was tried and acquitted three times in 1817 for publishing parodies on the church and the government. Besides writing political satires (i...

Appleton, Daniel

(Encyclopedia)Appleton, Daniel, 1785–1849, American publisher, b. Haverhill, Mass. The owner of a general store in Boston, he moved to New York in 1826, where he established one of the largest publishing houses i...

Mitchell, Margaret

(Encyclopedia)Mitchell, Margaret, 1900–1949, American novelist, b. Atlanta, Ga. Her one novel, Gone with the Wind (1936; Pulitzer Prize), a romantic, panoramic portrait of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods...

Gotha

(Encyclopedia)Gotha gōˈtä [key], city, Thuringia, central Germany. It is a rail junction, and its manufa...

Arrowsmith, Aaron

(Encyclopedia)Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823, English cartographer and geographer. He founded the map-making and publishing business carried on by his sons and by his nephew John Arrowsmith, 1790–1873. John Arrow...