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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 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 | 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 | 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 | Catherine Gore | |
| Reception | Rosa Nouchette Carey | The British Library
holds RNC
's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley
and Macmillan
, while Columbia University
, New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library. |
| Reception | Helen Mathers | 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... |
| Reception | Ouida | 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
. qtd. in Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105. 87 |
| Residence | Harriet Martineau | On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley
, Henry Colburn
, and William Saunders
for the right to issue reprints and new books. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 2: 95-100 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
told Sydney Morgan
that her publisher, Bentley
, had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | As early as 1824 MRM
was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 29 |
| Textual Production | Rhoda Broughton | The year 1873 saw the publication of a collection of RB
's uncanny short stories, Tales for Christmas Eve, once again from Richard Bentley and Son
. An edition of 1879 was re-titled Twilight... |
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