RB
, who published almost exclusively with Bentley
throughout her career, preferred to receive a lump sum for her novels rather than to rely on royalites and copyright earnings. In her reminiscence Ethel Arnold
suggests...
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Martin Ross
Bentley
offered £225 in payment, of which a hundred was to be in advance.
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
38
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Geraldine Jewsbury
The success of woman novelists in the circulating libraries led many publishers to employ women readers.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press.
Bentley
issued what may be Marguerite Blessington
's first novel published in London: The Repealers addresses the growing movement to repeal the Act of Union between England and Ireland (effective 1 January 1801).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
294 (1833): 372
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
232
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Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB
, again as the authoress of Flirtation, published with Bentley
a volume containing two novellas: The Disinherited; and, The Ensnared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
350 (1834): 518
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
63
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Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley
published from manuscript GE
's Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, whose existence he had heard about from her grand-daughter.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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Emma Frances Brooke
EFB
used her pseudonym to publish with Richard Bentley and Son
of London her first novel, A Fair Country Maid, which expresses her socialist views.
and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
74
The poem was published...
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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
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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...
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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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May Laffan
Richard Bentley
published, anonymously, the edition of ML
's Christy Carew which is reckoned by most scholars (though not by Helena Kelleher Kahn
), to be the first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2728 (1880): 182
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Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley
: a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
392 (1835): 334
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
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Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM
was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
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Catherine Sinclair
CS
published through Bentley
in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...
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1 September 1832
The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley
was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.
December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...
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December 1865
Alexander Strahan
launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig
as its first editor, and Charles Reade
's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.
By 12 September 1885: As the author of My Heart and I, Elinor Huddart...
Women writers item
By 12 September 1885
As the author of My Heart and I, Elinor Huddart
published through Remington and Company
her novelCommonplace Sinners, which another publisher, Bentley
, had rejected as immoral.
1898: The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and...
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1898
The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son
, dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan
.
Texts
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. The Roof of France. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Brooke, Emma Frances. A Fair Country Maid. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. Richard Bentley and Son, 1894.
Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Broughton, Rhoda. Dear Faustina. Richard Bentley and Son, 1897.
Broughton, Rhoda. Mrs. Bligh. Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.
Broughton, Rhoda. Nancy. Richard Bentley and Son, 1873.
Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. "But Men Must Work". Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Lover or Friend?. Richard Bentley and Son, 1890.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Mary St. John. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Not Like Other Girls. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Only the Governess. Richard Bentley and Son, 1888.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Uncle Max. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
Dixie, Florence, and Julius Beerbohm. Across Patagonia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Driftwood from Scandinavia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Kemble, Adelaide. Past Hours. Editor Gordon, May E., Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Kemble, Fanny. Far Away and Long Ago. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Kemble, Fanny. Notes upon Some of Shakespeare’s Plays. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Kemble, Fanny. Poems. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Kemble, Fanny. Record of a Girlhood. Richard Bentley and Son, 1878.
Kemble, Fanny. Records of Later Life. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Kemble, Fanny. The Adventures of Mr. John Timothy Homespun in Switzerland. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Mathers, Helen. As He Comes Up The Stair. Richard Bentley and Son, 1878.