Richard Bentley and Son

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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.
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Publishing Jessie Fothergill
Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp.
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Publishing Jessie Fothergill
The copyright of the novel initially sold for £40 on 26 March 1877. Two months later, Richard Bentley and Son recognized its commercial possibilities and drew up a new contract, increasing the price to £200...
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 Jessie Fothergill
While the first two of these novels were published by Bentley in three volumes, The Lasses of Leverhouse appeared in one-volume form from Hurst and Blackett . This domestic story was first seen in the...
Textual Production Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley published from manuscript GE 's Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, whose existence he had heard about from her grand-daughter.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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 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 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.
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Publishing Marie Corelli
Despite his readers having refused to recommend its publication, George BentleyRichard Bentley and Son decided to print MC 's first novel. He suggested a change in the title, on grounds that its original title, Lifted Up, was...
Publishing Marie Corelli
This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay (her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere .
As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is...
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...
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...
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.
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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.
Crisp, Jane. Mary Cholmondeley, 1859-1925. Department of English, University of Queensland.
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This was her second novel...

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