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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 |
Publishing | Ouida | The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley
to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall
; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury |
Literary responses | Ouida | Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury
, commissioned by RichardBentley
to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | These novels did badly; at least one made a loss for the publisher, Bentley
. Pettit, Clare. “‘Every man for himself, and God for us all!’ Mrs Oliphant, Self-help, and Industrial Success Literature in John Drayton and The Melvilles”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 2, pp. 163-79. 166 |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Susanna Moodie | Responding to her publisher's
request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM
quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 221, 224 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. 1348 (27 August 1853): 1012-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Richard Bentley
published SM
's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 224 Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 149 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. 1316 (15 January 1853): 73-4 |
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 |
Publishing | Susanna Moodie | Spurred on by the need to make money, SM
published four novels in three years, aiming to provide her audience with an easy read. The financial arrangement with her publisher Richard Bentley
meant that she... |
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 |
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... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | In the year in which HM
's recent publisher, Bentley
was taken over by Macmillan
, she published this novel with Thomas Burleigh
. There was also a Tauchnitz
edition the same year. 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 | Helen Mathers | Shortly after her husband
's death in early 1914, the increasingly deaf and rheumatic HM
resurfaced to bring a lawsuit against her later publishers, Stanley Paul
, in an attempt to secure the copyright of... |
Textual Production | Helen Mathers | Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess “People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol. 20 , No. 508, p. 191. 191 Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 74 |
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