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
Like her...
Textual Production
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.
Publishing
Annie Tinsley
It was published also in New York. Charles Reade
, who was himself at law with Bentley
, later persuaded her to change publishers.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
26
Textual Production
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
Textual Production
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...
Textual Production
Catherine Sinclair
CS
published through Bentley
in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
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 (...
Publishing
Mary Shelley
There have been some doubts about MS
's authorship, but Bentley
advertised the work as by her.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
415
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
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...
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.
17
Publishing
Charlotte Riddell
She dedicated this novel to a friend named Mrs Skirrow.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
331
Bentley
, who published it, and soon became her regular publisher, was said to pay her up to four hundred pounds per novel.
Publishing
Frances Mary Peard
FMP
's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley
with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan
after the latter took over the former.
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
When she made her enquiry of Bentley, FMP
felt that she had supplied this novel with a tidy name (the one under which it finally appeared) or even two to choose from.
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
(She had had...
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
1 September 1832: The two-year-old firm of Colburn and Bentley...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Writing climate item
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.