Richard Bentley and Son

MC decided not to serialise Red Pottage, as she had her earlier novels. She insisted that to be fairly judged, the story must be read as a whole. This was her second novel...

She had signed the agreement with her publisher, Richard Bentley , on 4 December 1861. She says that she set out here rather to give the value of the words than their scholastic or critically...

Its working title had been The O'Neills. GC sold the copyright to Richard Bentley on 14 August 1863 for a hundred and fifity pounds.

The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .

She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation...

LCB , again as the authoress of Flirtation, published with Bentley a volume containing two novellas: The Disinherited; and, The Ensnared.

Bentley 's private catalogue claimed that this book (revised from LCB 's first novel) was based on an actual separation which had shaken the fashionable world, and revealed its secret causes.

Further editions followed, with a Boston edition the next year and a French translation some years later. Bentley included both MB 's completed works in their Standard Novels series in 1849.

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.