Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Isabel Hill
Bentley had already offered the translation job to three or four other writers. After Hill completed her work she learned that L. E. L had rendered Corinne's odes into English. In the end L.E.L's translations...
Publishing Mary Brunton
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.
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...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...
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...
Publishing Lady Charlotte Bury
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.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, 2009.
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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...
Publishing Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley followed his edition of GE 's manuscript journals with a publicising letter about them in the Times.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
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Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...
Publishing Maria Callcott
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...
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, May 1992.
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She also published stories, novellas, and essays...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's (George Fleming's) novel Andromeda was published in two volumes by Bentley in London, by Roberts in the USA, and in a Tauchnitz edition the same year.
“Popular New Novels”. Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, Vol.
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, No. 1565, 24 Oct. 1885, p. 563, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/9228622/74C0C25EC74949A7PQ/4?accountid=14474.
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Locker, Arthur, editor. “New Novels”. The Graphic, Vol.
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, No. 834, 21 Nov. 1885, p. 579, https://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals/docview/1618415192/414C9B36E58E498EPQ/13?accountid=14474.
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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 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,...
Publishing Jessie Fothergill
Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King ; it was reprinted by Bentley in 1891 and by Macmillan in 1899.
qtd. in
Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1980, p. 27 pp.
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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, 1931.
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Bentley , who published it, and soon became her regular publisher, was said to pay her up to four hundred pounds per novel.

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Mathers, Helen. Comin’ Thro’ The Rye. Fourth Edition, Richard Bentley and Son, 1876, 3 vols.
Mathers, Helen. Eyre’s Acquittal. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884, 3 vols.
Mathers, Helen. Sam’s Sweetheart. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. An Irish Cousin. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889, 2 vols.
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son, 1879.
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Driftwood from Scandinavia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.