Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
RB 's novel Nancy was published by Bentley . It was not serialised: she stipulated that it should appear in three-volume form only, and by now her publisher was willing to act on her wishes.
Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.
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Publishing Maria Jane Jewsbury
Henry Austen , the source of many of MJJ 's opinions about his sister , recycled parts of this piece for Bentley 's new edition of Austen 's novels in 1833. (He omitted MJJ 's...
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
She had signed the agreement with her publisher, Richard Bentley , on 4 December 1861.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
She says that she set out here rather to give the value of the words than their scholastic or critically...
Publishing Jessie Fothergill
Two of JF 's shorter tales, Made or Marred and One of Three, were published in 1881 by Bentley , each as a single volume. They appeared in the United States in the...
Publishing Frances Mary Peard
When she made her enquiry of Bentley, FMP felt that she had supplied this novel with a tidy name (the one under which it finally appeared) or even two to choose from.
qtd. in
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
(She had had...
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993.
81
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 482
Publishing Julia Kavanagh
Bentley paid her £48 for the copyright. New editions followed in 1857 and 1884.
Fauset, Eileen. The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77. Manchester University Press, 2009.
37
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 Georgiana Chatterton
Its working title had been The O'Neills. GC sold the copyright to Richard Bentley on 14 August 1863 for a hundred and fifity pounds.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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 .
qtd. in
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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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...
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.
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, 1983, 2 vols.
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 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 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, 1930.
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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, 1990.

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