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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Rhoda Broughton | |
| Publishing | Fanny Kemble | Richard Bentley
's new edition of FK
's Poems included many printed for the first time, some dealing with her unhappy married life. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 255 Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984. 180 |
| Publishing | Mary Cholmondeley | 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. qtd. in Crisp, Jane. Mary Cholmondeley, 1859-1925. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1981. 11 |
| Publishing | Helen Mathers | 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. 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 | 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, 1979. 136 |
| Publishing | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe
's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to... |
| Publishing | Helen Mathers | 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... |
| Publishing | Catherine Gore | |
| Publishing | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
| Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | She paid for the printing, typesetting, and binding herself, though the book was nominally published by Bentley
; within three months she had made £600. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 346 |
| Publishing | Annie Tinsley | It was published also in New York. Charles Reade
, who was himself at law with Bentley
, later persuaded her to change publishers. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930. 26 |
| Publishing | May Laffan | ML
began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan
, which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley
as her British publisher. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 50 |
| Publishing | Wilkie Collins | 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... |
| Publishing | Catherine Maria Grey | 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). John Bull. (23 September 1839): 447 Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 104 , No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40. 305-7 |
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