Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Richard Bentley and Son
Connections
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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 | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's quasi-autobiographical novel A Beginner was published by Bentley
; its serialization in Temple Bar appeared from January to June the same year. Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins. 81 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 3: 482 |
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 | Mary Cholmondeley | Her publisher, Bentley
, had received the manuscript from MC
's friend Rhoda Broughton
. Bentley paid MC
£40 for The Danvers Jewels and £50 for its sequel, Sir Charles Danvers (also published by Bentley... |
Publishing | Charlotte Riddell | She dedicated this novel to a friend named Mrs Skirrow. Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press. 331 |
Publishing | Catherine Gore | |
Publishing | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's novel Dear Faustina was published in a single volume by Bentley
, following its serialisation in Temple Bar. Murphy, Patricia. “Disdained and Disempowered: The "Inverted" New Woman in Rhoda Broughton’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Dear Faustina</span>”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 19 , No. 1, pp. 57-79. 58 |
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 | Rosa Nouchette Carey | The British Library
holds RNC
's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley
and Macmillan
, while Columbia University
, New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library. |
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... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Sinclair | |
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 | 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... |
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