Richard Bentley and Son

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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 Mary Cholmondeley
MC decided not to serialise Red Pottage, as she had her earlier novels. She insisted that to be fairly judged, the story must be read as a whole.
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Crisp, Jane. Mary Cholmondeley, 1859-1925. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1981.
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This was her second novel...
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 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, 1999.
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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 Rhoda Broughton
RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993.
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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, 2000.
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Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
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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...
Publishing Frances Trollope
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 .
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Like her...
Publishing Fanny Aikin Kortright
She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
She paid for the printing, typesetting, and binding herself, though the book was nominally published by Bentley ; within three months she had made £600.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Publishing Catherine Gore
Best-known of her publications this year is Pin-Money. CG wrote out promotional paragraphs about this novel for her publisher, Bentley , to insert in his Court Journal.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
It was a request from Bentley's for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury ) that caused RB 's second-written novel to appear in...
Publishing Wilkie Collins
It was hard to find a publisher for Antonina until Bentley agreed to pay him a hundred pounds for it, with a further hundred to follow if the edition sold more than 500 copies (which...
Publishing Annie Tinsley
It was published also in New York. Charles Reade , who was himself at law with Bentley , later persuaded her to change publishers.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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