Richard Bentley and Son

Richard Bentley 's new edition of FK 's Poems included many printed for the first time, some dealing with her unhappy married life.

Bentley paid her £48 for the copyright. New editions followed in 1857 and 1884.

This time Bentley paid her £300 for the copyright, with a further £150 contracted for every reprint of 500 copies. A second edition of Daisy Burns appeared that same year. Around 1860, a French translation...

GJ was a publisher's reader for the leading firm of Richard Bentley and Son , a position she held until she died.

During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction...

After establishing herself as a serious writer of fiction and periodical articles, GJ also proved her abilities as a critic. In addition to reading for important publishers such as Bentley & Sons from 1858 to...

The success of woman novelists in the circulating libraries led many publishers to employ women readers.GJ used her position with Richard Bentley and Son to promote women writers such as Margaret Oliphant and...

Henry Austen , the source of many of MJJ 's opinions about his sister , recycled parts of this piece for Bentley 's new edition of Austen 's novels in 1833. (He omitted MJJ 's...

HCJ published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley ), The Smiths...

Publisher Richard Bentley paid fifty guineas for the first printing and promised the same amount for a second.

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...

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).

From what little is known, CMG became a silver-fork novelist who signed most of her own contracts. (Her husband signed her first contract with Richard Bentley , but she signed the second.) She began writing...

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

Best-known of her publications this year is Pin-Money. CG wrote out promotional paragraphs about this novel for her publisher, Bentley , to insert in his Court Journal.