Richard Bentley and Son

RB 's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho...

She wrote the original part of manuscript for pleasure, but had to add six chapters to it to bring it to book-length, urged on by her parents (who wanted to distract her after the death...

Richard Bentley published SM 's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States.

George Eliot not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's expressly so that it...

These novels did badly; at least one made a loss for the publisher, Bentley .

Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury , commissioned by RichardBentley to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man...

For Geraldine Jewsbury (who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's ), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a...

Responding to her publisher's request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.

After establishing herself as a serious writer of fiction and periodical articles, GJ also proved her abilities as a critic. In addition to reading for important publishers such as Bentley & Sons from 1858 to...

From what little is known, CMG became a silver-fork novelist who signed most of her own contracts. (Her husband signed her first contract with Richard Bentley , but she signed the second.) She began writing...

During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction...

She worked on this novel through a recurrence of ill health: sleeplessness, neuralgia, and a failure of vitality. She dedicated it to Hyacinthe, Lady Dalby , who had supplied the material for A Garland of...

Spurred on by the need to make money, SM published four novels in three years, aiming to provide her audience with an easy read. The financial arrangement with her publisher Richard Bentley meant that she...

Despite his readers having refused to recommend its publication, George BentleyRichard Bentley and Son decided to print MC 's first novel. He suggested a change in the title, on grounds that its original title, Lifted Up, was...

It was published also in New York. Charles Reade , who was himself at law with Bentley , later persuaded her to change publishers.