Richard Bentley and Son

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.

She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain...

She had considered a number of possible titles for this novel, including Morning, Noon and Night and Life's Little Day. She eventually settled on Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye, which Bentley , despite her objections...

This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay (her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere .

The two-volume book was simultaneously published in French, in Paris by A. and W. Galignani and Co.FT signed for £500 for the first two thousand copies issued by Richard Bentley . Like her...

Her friend Ethel Arnold reported that Second Thoughts was RB 's own favourite among her works. She wrote it while another friend, Adelaide Kemble , was dying, and would read Kemble chapters at her bedside...

Publisher Richard Bentley paid fifty guineas for the first printing and promised the same amount for a second.

AM used a different publisher, Richard Bentley , for a whole series of novels which were contemporary, not historical, and which bore the subtitle A Tale of English Country Life. These run from The...

Her publisher, Bentley , had offered her £250, but she held out for and got £300, and felt that the book's success had vindicated her bargaining.

The novel was rejected by Sampson and Co. , but accepted by Richard Bentley and Son by August 1888. Their terms were twenty-five pounds on publication and another twenty-five if the edition of 500 copies...

During this time she oversaw the serialization of three of her own novels, and weathered an acrimonious shift of publisher from Bentley to Clowes and Son . She also published stories, novellas, and essays...

Further editions followed, with a Boston edition the next year and a French translation some years later. Bentley included both MB 's completed works in their Standard Novels series in 1849.

John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...

Their titles were Sealed Orders, The Previsions of Lady Evelyn, and A Soldier's Fortune. AM had some trouble negotiating the terms for this publication. She wrote to her son on 28 March,...