Richard Bentley and Son

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...

She wrote the original part of manuscript for pleasure, but had to add six chapters to it to bring it to book-length, urged on by her parents (who wanted to distract her after the death...

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.

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.

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...

She had considered a number of possible titles for this novel, including Morning, Noon and Night and Life's Little Day. She eventually settled on Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye, which Bentley , despite her objections...

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...

RB 's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho...

RB 's novel Nancy was published by Bentley . It was not serialised: she stipulated that it should appear in three-volume form only, and by now her publisher was willing to act on her wishes.

RB 's quasi-autobiographical novel A Beginner was published by Bentley ; its serialization in Temple Bar appeared from January to June the same year.

RB 's novel Dear Faustina was published in a single volume by Bentley , following its serialisation in Temple Bar.

RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).

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...

It was a request from Bentley's for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury ) that caused RB 's second-written novel to appear in...

For Geraldine Jewsbury (who had originally read the manuscript of Not Wisely, but Too Well for Bentley's ), the anonymous author's gender was supposedly self-evident: That the author is not a young woman, but a...