Richard Bentley and Son

On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley , Henry Colburn , and William Saunders for the right to issue reprints and new books.

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,...

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 . She also published stories, novellas, and essays...

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).

She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...

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...

SM published her first novel, Selah Harrison, through R. Bentley and Son .

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...

She worked on this novel through a recurrence of ill health: sleeplessness, neuralgia, and a failure of vitality. She dedicated it to Hyacinthe, Lady Dalby , who had supplied the material for A Garland of...

ML first reached a wide readership when her second novel, Between the Heather and the Northern Sea, emerged in three-volume form from Bentley , having been serialized in Good Words from January that year.

First published in London in two volumes, it appeared in Hobart in 1860. The novel was written between March 1857 and March 1858. It went through three editions and three reprints between 1859 and 1900...

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.

ML began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan , which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley as her British publisher.

This was the last novel to appear before ML 's marriage (after which she reputedly gave up writing). Apart from Bentley 's edition, ML 's American publisher Henry Holt published or re-published it at New...

She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...