Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Eliza Lynn Linton
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...
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.
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...
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
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
92
Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...
Publishing Florence Marryat
During this time she oversaw the serialization of three of her own novels, and weathered an acrimonious shift of publisher from Bentley to Clowes and Son .
Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University.
70
She also published stories, novellas, and essays...
Publishing Anne Marsh
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,...
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 Production Helen Mathers
Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess
“People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol.
20
, No. 508, p. 191.
191
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.
74
The poem was published...
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...
Publishing Helen Mathers
In the year in which HM 's recent publisher, Bentley was taken over by Macmillan , she published this novel with Thomas Burleigh . There was also a Tauchnitz edition the same year.
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.
Publishing Helen Mathers
Shortly after her husband 's death in early 1914, the increasingly deaf and rheumatic HM resurfaced to bring a lawsuit against her later publishers, Stanley Paul , in an attempt to secure the copyright of...
Textual Production 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...
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
Material Conditions of Writing Susanna Moodie
Responding to her publisher's request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
221, 224
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.
1348 (27 August 1853): 1012-3

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