Richard Bentley and Son

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Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ was a publisher's reader for the leading firm of Richard Bentley and Son , a position she held until she died.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press.
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Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM published her first novel, Selah Harrison, through R. Bentley and Son .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...
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.
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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.
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GJ used her position with Richard Bentley and Son to promote women writers such as Margaret Oliphant and...
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.
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Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB , again as the authoress of Flirtation, published with Bentley a volume containing two novellas: The Disinherited; and, The Ensnared.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
350 (1834): 518
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley published from manuscript GE 's Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, whose existence he had heard about from her grand-daughter.
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.
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB used her pseudonym to publish with Richard Bentley and Son of London her first novel, A Fair Country Maid, which expresses her socialist views.
Wallace, William. “New Novels”. The Academy, Vol.
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, No. 585, p. 42.
585 (21 July 1883): 42
Textual Production Helen Mathers
Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess
“People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol.
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, No. 508, p. 191.
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and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
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The poem was published...
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB 's publication of her novel The Heir Without a Heritage (with Richard Bentley and Son , as E. Fairfax Byrrne), displayed her increasingly unorthodox religious and political views.
Anonymous,. “The Times Column of New Books and New Editions”. The Times, No. 32075, p. 14.
32075 (18 May 1887): 14
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.
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Textual Production May Laffan
Richard Bentley published, anonymously, the edition of ML 's Christy Carew which is reckoned by most scholars (though not by Helena Kelleher Kahn ), to be the first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2728 (1880): 182
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley : a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
392 (1835): 334
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195

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