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Publishing | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
Publishing | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
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 | Emily Eden | 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. Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20. 17 |
Publishing | Martin Ross | 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... |
Publishing | Anne Manning | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Brunton | |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | 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... |
Publishing | Florence Marryat | 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
. Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University. 70 |
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 |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | 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,... |
Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | |
Publishing | Grace Elliott | Richard Bentley
followed his edition of GE
's manuscript journals with a publicising letter about them in the Times. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Maria Jane Jewsbury |
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