Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
221, 224
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Susanna Moodie | Responding to her publisher's
request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM
quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 221, 224 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. 1348 (27 August 1853): 1012-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Richard Bentley
published SM
's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 224 Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 149 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. 1316 (15 January 1853): 73-4 |
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. 163-4 |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | These novels did badly; at least one made a loss for the publisher, Bentley
. Pettit, Clare. “‘Every man for himself, and God for us all!’ Mrs Oliphant, Self-help, and Industrial Success Literature in John Drayton and The Melvilles”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 2, pp. 163-79. 166 |
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 |
Publishing | Ouida | The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley
to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall
; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury |
Literary responses | Ouida | Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury
, commissioned by RichardBentley
to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man... |
Publishing | Frances Mary Peard | FMP
's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley
with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan
after the latter took over the former. “Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. “Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print. |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | Charlotte Cowan
succeeded in publishing two novels during the year she became CR
: The Moors and the Fens as F. G. Trafford, with Smith, Elder
, and The Ruling Passion as Rainey Hawthorne... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | CR
particularly remembered the kindness and sympathy of George Bentley
, then a junior partner in his father's firm. Though he, like everyone else, refused my work, I still left his office not unhappy. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 17 |
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 | Martin Ross | The novel was rejected by Sampson and Co.
, but accepted by Richard Bentley and Son
by August 1888. Their terms were twenty-five pounds on publication and another twenty-five if the edition of 500 copies... |
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. 38 |
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