Richard Bentley and Son

This novel was successful enough to make publisher Richard BentleyRichard Bentley and Son consider taking over publication of Ouida 's novels from Chapman and Hall .

The success of Ouida's Strathmore had led publisher RichardBentley to consider luring her from Chapman and Hall ; while Under Two Flags was still in manuscript, he commissioned a reader's report from Geraldine Jewsbury

Editorial reader Geraldine Jewsbury , commissioned by RichardBentley to report on this novel at its manuscript stage, wrote scathingly (on 29 December 1865) that it was not a story that will do any man...

These novels did badly; at least one made a loss for the publisher, Bentley .

George Eliot not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's expressly so that it...

Responding to her publisher's request for more material to feed a market hungry for her work, SM quickly assembled Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.

Richard Bentley published SM 's Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper, a novel grounded in Gothic and romantic traditions which fared best in the United States.

SM published (again with Richard Bentley ) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance.

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...

MRM 's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley : a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.

As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist. She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...

Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed. The poem was published...

Comin' Thro' the Rye sold over 35,000 copies for publisher Bentley and Son . HM had made a bad mistake in selling for 30 guineas the copyright in a novel which went on to make...

In the year in which HM 's recent publisher, Bentley was taken over by Macmillan , she published this novel with Thomas Burleigh . There was also a Tauchnitz edition the same year.

Shortly after her husband 's death in early 1914, the increasingly deaf and rheumatic HM resurfaced to bring a lawsuit against her later publishers, Stanley Paul , in an attempt to secure the copyright of...