Richard Bentley and Son

CMG 's The Duke, her third novel, was published in three volumes as a result of her first contract with Richard Bentley (who was to publish just one more of her works).

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...

It was a request from Bentley's for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury ) that caused RB 's second-written novel to appear in...

She paid for the printing, typesetting, and binding herself, though the book was nominally published by Bentley ; within three months she had made £600.

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.

It was hard to find a publisher for Antonina until Bentley agreed to pay him a hundred pounds for it, with a further hundred to follow if the edition sold more than 500 copies (which...

CMG signed her next Bentley contract herself, for The Young Prima Donna in 1840.

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...

Spurred on by the need to make money, SM published four novels in three years, aiming to provide her audience with an easy read. The financial arrangement with her publisher Richard Bentley meant that she...

Despite his readers having refused to recommend its publication, George BentleyRichard Bentley and Son decided to print MC 's first novel. He suggested a change in the title, on grounds that its original title, Lifted Up, was...

It was published also in New York. Charles Reade , who was himself at law with Bentley , later persuaded her to change publishers.

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...

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 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...

This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay (her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere .