Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Marie Corelli | This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC
had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay
(her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere
. As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is... |
Publishing | Frances Trollope | The two-volume book was simultaneously published in French, in Paris by A. and W. Galignani and Co.FT
signed for £500 for the first two thousand copies issued by Richard Bentley
. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 136 |
Publishing | Rhoda Broughton | Her friend Ethel Arnold
reported that Second Thoughts was RB
's own favourite among her works. She wrote it while another friend, Adelaide Kemble
, was dying, and would read Kemble chapters at her bedside... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Publisher Richard Bentley
paid fifty guineas for the first printing and promised the same amount for a second. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 195 |
Publishing | Anne Manning | AM
used a different publisher, Richard Bentley
, for a whole series of novels which were contemporary, not historical, and which bore the subtitle A Tale of English Country Life. These run from The... |
Publishing | Emily Eden | Her publisher, Bentley
, had offered her £250, but she held out for and got £300, and felt that the book's success had vindicated her bargaining. Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20. 17 |
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... |
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 | Helen Mathers | Comin' Thro' the Rye sold over 35,000 copies for publisher Bentley and Son
. HM
had made a bad mistake in selling for 30 guineas the copyright in a novel which went on to make... |
Reception | Rosa Nouchette Carey | The British Library
holds RNC
's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley
and Macmillan
, while Columbia University
, New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library. |
Residence | Harriet Martineau | On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley
, Henry Colburn
, and William Saunders
for the right to issue reprints and new books. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 95-100 |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
told Sydney Morgan
that her publisher, Bentley
, had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery |
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 |
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. 156-7 |
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. 232 |
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