Richard Bentley and Son

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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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
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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
Bentley , who published it, and soon became her regular publisher, was said to pay her up to four hundred pounds per novel.
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.
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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 57-79.
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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 75-105.
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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 &amp; 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
CS published through Bentley in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1301 (2 October 1852): 1064
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
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
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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