Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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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 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. 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. 7: 171 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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 |
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 |
Publishing | Eliza Lynn Linton | She intended this novel to open the eyes of its readers to the oppression of women. Her hopes were very high: I confidently expect a success equal to Jane Eyre. This may sound vain... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Their titles were Sealed Orders, The Previsions of Lady Evelyn, and A Soldier's Fortune. AM
had some trouble negotiating the terms for this publication. She wrote to her son on 28 March,... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | It was probably of this work that AM
wrote in May 1844, My negotiation with Mr Bentley
[publisher of her The Triumphs of Time] has not yet come to a conclusion, but I hope... |
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 |
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