Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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Publishing | Fanny Kemble | Richard Bentley
's new edition of FK
's Poems included many printed for the first time, some dealing with her unhappy married life. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 255 Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research. 180 |
Publishing | Julia Kavanagh | This time Bentley
paid her £300 for the copyright, with a further £150 contracted for every reprint of 500 copies. A second edition of Daisy Burns appeared that same year. Around 1860, a French translation... |
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. 37 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. |
Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
was a publisher's reader for the leading firm of Richard Bentley and Son
, a position she held until she died. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press. 177 |
Author summary | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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... |
Occupation | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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... |
Textual Production | 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. 156-7 |
Publishing | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Textual Production | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Publisher Richard Bentley
paid fifty guineas for the first printing and promised the same amount for a second. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 195 |
Publishing | Isabel Hill | |
Publishing | Catherine Maria Grey | CMG
's The Duke, her third novel, was published in three volumes as a result of her first contract with Richard Bentley
(who was to publish just one more of her works). John Bull. (23 September 1839): 447 Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 104 , No. 3, pp. 299-40. 305-7 |
Occupation | Catherine Maria Grey | 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... |
Publishing | Catherine Maria Grey | CMG
signed her next Bentley
contract herself, for The Young Prima Donna in 1840. Smith, Helen R. New Light on Sweeney Todd, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer and Elizabeth Caroline Grey. Jarndyce. 8 Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 104 , No. 3, pp. 299-40. 337 |
Publishing | Catherine Gore |
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