Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...
Publishing Lady Charlotte Bury
Bentley 's private catalogue claimed that this book (revised from LCB 's first novel) was based on an actual separation which had shaken the fashionable world, and revealed its secret causes.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
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Publishing Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley followed his edition of GE 's manuscript journals with a publicising letter about them in the Times.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Publishing Julia Kavanagh
Bentley paid her £48 for the copyright. New editions followed in 1857 and 1884.
Fauset, Eileen. The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77. Manchester University Press.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Maria Callcott
She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation...
Publishing Frances Mary Peard
FMP 's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan after the latter took over the former.
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Jessie Fothergill
Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp.
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Reception Helen Mathers
Comin' Thro' the Rye sold over 35,000 copies for publisher Bentley and Son . HM had made a bad mistake in selling for 30 guineas the copyright in a novel which went on to make...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Ouida
This novel was successful enough to make publisher Richard BentleyRichard Bentley and Son consider taking over publication of Ouida 's novels from Chapman and Hall .
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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Residence Harriet Martineau
On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley , Henry Colburn , and William Saunders for the right to issue reprints and new books.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
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Textual Features Catherine Gore
CG told Sydney Morgan that her publisher, Bentley , had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB 's publication of her novel The Heir Without a Heritage (with Richard Bentley and Son , as E. Fairfax Byrrne), displayed her increasingly unorthodox religious and political views.
Anonymous,. “The Times Column of New Books and New Editions”. The Times, No. 32075, p. 14.
32075 (18 May 1887): 14
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
Charlotte Cowan succeeded in publishing two novels during the year she became CR : The Moors and the Fens as F. G. Trafford, with Smith, Elder , and The Ruling Passion as Rainey Hawthorne...
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
CR particularly remembered the kindness and sympathy of George Bentley , then a junior partner in his father's firm. Though he, like everyone else, refused my work, I still left his office not unhappy.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
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