Resources

Books:

Ballou, Ellen B. The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

Sedwick, Ellery. A History of the Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1909: Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.

Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Archives:

Houghton Mifflin Records, 1866-1968 (MS Am 2030-2030.4), Houghton Library, Harvard University. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00004/catalog

Houghton Mifflin Company Correspondence and Records, 1832-1944 (MS Am 1925-1925.4). Houghton Library, Harvard University. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog

Atlantic Monthly:

Digitized volumes of The Atlantic Monthly are available through Hathi Trust:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000597656

Articles:

Dietrich, Lucas. “Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton Mifflin, and the Racial Paratext.” Melus, vol. 41, no. 4, 2016, pp. 166–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlw048

Hamilton, Erika. “Advertising Cather During the Transition Years (1914-1922).” Cather Studies, vol. 7, 2007, p. 13.

Langlois, Karen S. “Mary Austin and Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer.” Western American Literature, vol. 23, no. 1, Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1988, pp. 31–42, https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0173

Lupfer, Eric. “Before Nature Writing: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and the Invention of the Outdoor Book, 1800-1900.” Book History, vol. 4, 2001, pp. 177–204, https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2001.0010.

Miller, Harold T. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York: Newcomen Society of the United States, 1984.

Supino, David J. “Henry James's Fiction: A Comparison of Some Publishing Practices of Macmillan and Houghton, Mifflin.” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, p. 1.

Thacker, Robert. “"As the result of many solicitations": Ferris Greenslet, Houghton Mifflin, and Cather's Career." Studies in the Novel, vol. 45, no. 3, university of north texas, 2013, pp. 369–86, https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2013.0021.

Winship, Michael. “The Library of Congress in 1892: Ainsworth Spofford, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Information & Culture, vol. 45, no. 1,  2010, pp. 85–91, https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.0.0114.