RB
, who published almost exclusively with Bentley
throughout her career, preferred to receive a lump sum for her novels rather than to rely on royalites and copyright earnings. In her reminiscence Ethel Arnold
suggests...
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Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM
was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
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Catherine Sinclair
CS
published through Bentley
in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
By early 1876, someone using the name of Fanny Power Cobbe
(legitimately as it turned out, but apparently impersonating FPC
) sent submissions to George Bentley
(of the publishing house
), Tinsley's Magazine, and...
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Catherine Sinclair
London Homes by CS
, published in 1853 in London by Bentley
, brought together its title novella with a collection of disparate writings, each of which is freshly paginated: short fiction, a play (...
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Harriet Smythies
Harriet Gordon (later Smythies)
published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth...
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Susanna Moodie
SM
published (again with Richard Bentley
) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance.
Moodie, Susanna. The World Before Them. R. Bentley.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
163-4
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Annie Tinsley
AT
published with Bentley
another novel, Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, and its Victims. An Autobiography, which she later defended with vigour against its critics who thought it derivative from other novels.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
1, 8
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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Rhoda Broughton
The year 1873 saw the publication of a collection of RB
's uncanny short stories, Tales for Christmas Eve, once again from Richard Bentley and Son
. An edition of 1879 was re-titled Twilight...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan
used another new publisher, Bentley
, for her Belgian novel, The Princess; or, The Beguine, which appeared with a date of 1835.
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.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 386
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
222
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Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ
published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley
), The Smiths...
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...
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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.
177
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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
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...
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1 September 1832
The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley
was dissolved when Bentley bought Colburn out, amid considerable ill-feeling apparently caused by Colburn's shady financial practices.
December 1865: Alexander Strahan launched The Argosy, a...
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December 1865
Alexander Strahan
launched The Argosy, a monthly literary and travel magazine, with Isa Craig
as its first editor, and Charles Reade
's Griffith Gaunt as its lead serial.
By 12 September 1885: As the author of My Heart and I, Elinor Huddart...
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By 12 September 1885
As the author of My Heart and I, Elinor Huddart
published through Remington and Company
her novelCommonplace Sinners, which another publisher, Bentley
, had rejected as immoral.
1898: The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and...
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1898
The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son
, dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan
.
Texts
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. The Roof of France. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Brooke, Emma Frances. A Fair Country Maid. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. Richard Bentley and Son, 1894.
Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Broughton, Rhoda. Dear Faustina. Richard Bentley and Son, 1897.
Broughton, Rhoda. Mrs. Bligh. Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.
Broughton, Rhoda. Nancy. Richard Bentley and Son, 1873.
Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. "But Men Must Work". Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Lover or Friend?. Richard Bentley and Son, 1890.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Mary St. John. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Not Like Other Girls. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Only the Governess. Richard Bentley and Son, 1888.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Uncle Max. Richard Bentley and Son, 1887.
Dixie, Florence, and Julius Beerbohm. Across Patagonia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Driftwood from Scandinavia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Kemble, Adelaide. Past Hours. Editor Gordon, May E., Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.
Kemble, Fanny. Far Away and Long Ago. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Kemble, Fanny. Notes upon Some of Shakespeare’s Plays. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Kemble, Fanny. Poems. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883.
Kemble, Fanny. Record of a Girlhood. Richard Bentley and Son, 1878.
Kemble, Fanny. Records of Later Life. Richard Bentley and Son, 1882.
Kemble, Fanny. The Adventures of Mr. John Timothy Homespun in Switzerland. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Mathers, Helen. As He Comes Up The Stair. Richard Bentley and Son, 1878.
