Richard Bentley

Probably as early as 1862, the publisher Richard Bentley asked EW for her critical opinion of the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon . She replied with a balanced, judicious, and respectful assessment.

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...

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...

After her marriage to Thomas Adolphus Trollope , FET was quickly adopted into the Trollope family not only as his wife, but also as a fellow writer. Though she had begun her relationship with Thomas...

After the fiasco with Whittaker , FT began shopping around for a new publishing house in the winter of 1834. This proved difficult, and she was rejected several times before Richard Bentley opted to publish...

MS began writing this novel in January 1831 (the year of the First Reform Bill), intending to subtitle it a Tale of the Present Times. While she worked on it she was moving...

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 .

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

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...

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 .

She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley , without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. French and American editions soon followed. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press

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...

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,...

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...

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.