Richard Bentley and Son

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Textual Production Catherine Sinclair
London Homes by CS , published in 1853 in London by Bentley , brought together its title novella with a collection of disparate writings, each of which is freshly paginated: short fiction, a play (...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth...
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.
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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.
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM published (again with Richard Bentley ) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance.
Moodie, Susanna. The World Before Them. R. Bentley.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
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Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
The year 1873 saw the publication of a collection of RB 's uncanny short stories, Tales for Christmas Eve, once again from Richard Bentley and Son . An edition of 1879 was re-titled Twilight...
Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley ), The Smiths...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan used another new publisher, Bentley , for her Belgian novel, The Princess; or, The Beguine, which appeared with a date of 1835.
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.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ was a publisher's reader for the leading firm of Richard Bentley and Son , a position she held until she died.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press.
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Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM published her first novel, Selah Harrison, through R. Bentley and Son .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Martin Ross
Bentley offered £225 in payment, of which a hundred was to be in advance.
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
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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.
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
The success of woman novelists in the circulating libraries led many publishers to employ women readers.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press.
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GJ used her position with Richard Bentley and Son to promote women writers such as Margaret Oliphant and...
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Bentley issued what may be Marguerite Blessington 's first novel published in London: The Repealers addresses the growing movement to repeal the Act of Union between England and Ireland (effective 1 January 1801).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
294 (1833): 372
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB , again as the authoress of Flirtation, published with Bentley a volume containing two novellas: The Disinherited; and, The Ensnared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
350 (1834): 518
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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