Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Richard Bentley
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Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1794 - 1871
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jane Austen | John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year... |
| Textual Production | Charles Dickens | It entertained readers through serialised fiction, biographical sketches, travel logs, and articles on current affairs. The journal eschewed politics, and tended to draw work from authors published by its owner, Richard Bentley
. Following a... |
| Textual Production | Ann Hatton | Letters from AH
to Richard Bentley
, Douglas Cohen
, and J. P. Collier
(scholar and forger) survive in the Folger Library
, while other manuscripts are held at the Swansea Museum. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
published with Richard Bentley
the first of her novels, Miss Aylmer; or, The Maid's Husband, anonymously: she began writing because her family needed the money. The old Dictionary of National Biography article on... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley. prelims Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 197 |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada
and the National Archives of Canada
. Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley
are available in the British Library
. Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada. “The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website. |
| Textual Features | Ellen Wood | Charles Wood
relates that Richard Bentley
requested a motto for the novel. EW
eventually drew one from from Longfellow
's The Courtship of Miles Standish, feeling that this poem was so applicable to the... |
| Reception | Rhoda Broughton | Broughton was apparently delighted with the positive reception of Red as a Rose is She. It was well reviewed in the Times and the Athenæum, and it proved even more popular with readers... |
| Reception | Rhoda Broughton | RB
was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley
in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall. Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable. 106 |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | CG
said that Bentley
paid her three hundred pounds for Cecil, but then made her refund sixty on the grounds that the novel was not saleable (in which he was wrong). Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta. 208 |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Frances Trollope | |
| Publishing | Ellen Wood | The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall
, and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth
. After their reader (novelist George Meredith
) twice rejected it, EW
took... |
| Publishing | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
received 12 guineas for this first effort. After she sent a second poem to Bentley's, however, Richard Bentley
advised her that she would do better to turn her attention to prose works. The... |
Timeline
1806: Henry Colburn set up a publishing house in...
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1806
Henry Colburn
set up a publishing house in London; his authors included many best-sellers.
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
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3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
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3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...
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4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
3 November 1852: Richard Bentley agreed to publish Charles...
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3 November 1852
February 1859: Richard Bentley began publishing the short-lived...
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February 1859
Richard Bentley
began publishing the short-lived Bentley's Quarterly Review.
December 1868: With sales of the once-popular Bentley's...
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December 1868
With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley
, ended its publication.
10 September 1871: Richard Bentley, publisher, died at Ramsgate...
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10 September 1871
Richard Bentley
, publisher, died at Ramsgate in Kent; his firm passed to his son George
, and continued to publish under his name until 1898.
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