Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Frances Trollope
The two-volume book was simultaneously published in French, in Paris by A. and W. Galignani and Co.FT signed for £500 for the first two thousand copies issued by Richard Bentley .
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
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...
Publishing Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Publisher Richard Bentley paid fifty guineas for the first printing and promised the same amount for a second.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
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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 Emily Eden
Her publisher, Bentley , had offered her £250, but she held out for and got £300, and felt that the book's success had vindicated her bargaining.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20.
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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 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.
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She also published stories, novellas, and essays...
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 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 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 Ouida
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
Publishing Mary Shelley
There have been some doubts about MS 's authorship, but Bentley advertised the work as by her.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
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Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, 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 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.
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Publishing Grace Elliott
Richard Bentley followed his edition of GE 's manuscript journals with a publicising letter about them in the Times.
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