Charles Ollier

Charles Ollier (1788–1859) was an English publisher and writer, associated with the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.

Early life From a Huguenot background, Ollier began life in the banking-house of Messrs. Coutts. About 1816 he was in business as a publisher in Vere Street, Bond Street, in partnership with his brother James, who was more the man of business.

Publisher Ollier made the acquaintance of Leigh Hunt, and undertook the publication of some of his works: Foliage, Hero and Leander, and the second edition of The Story of Rimini. Through Hunt, Ollier became known to John Keats, and volunteered to publish his first poems (1817). The book did not succeed, however, and Keats quarrelled with him, publishing his subsequent books with Taylor & Hessey.

Death Ollier died at Old Brompton on 5 June 1859. Edmund Ollier the journalist was his son.

Works Ollier published:

Altham and his Wife: A Domestic Tale, 1818. Inesilla; or the Tempter: a Romance, with other Tales, 1824. Ferrers, 1842, a romance on the execution of Earl Ferrers in 1760, somewhat in the style of Harrison Ainsworth. Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens, with Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in-Death, and Monomania, 1848; reprinted from Ainsworth's Magazine.

Letters from Leigh Hunt suggest that Ollier wrote for the Naval and Military Gazette, as well as for Ainsworth's Magazine.