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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. 17 |
Textual Production | 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 |
Textual Production | 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 |
Textual Production | 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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Sinclair | |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | By early 1876, someone using the name of Fanny Power Cobbe
(legitimately as it turned out, but apparently impersonating FPC
) sent submissions to George Bentley
(of the publishing house
), Tinsley's Magazine, and... |
Textual Production | Catherine Sinclair | |
Textual Production | Harriet Smythies | Harriet Gordon (later Smythies)
published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth... |
Textual Production | Annie Tinsley | AT
published with Bentley
another novel, Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, and its Victims. An Autobiography, which she later defended with vigour against its critics who thought it derivative from other novels. 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. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 1, 8 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | SM
published (again with Richard Bentley
) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance. Moodie, Susanna. The World Before Them. R. Bentley. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 163-4 |
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 |
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. 2: 95-100 |
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. 57 , No. 1, pp. 75-105. 87 |
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... |
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