Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing May Laffan
This was the last novel to appear before ML 's marriage (after which she reputedly gave up writing). Apart from Bentley 's edition, ML 's American publisher Henry Holt published or re-published it at New...
Publishing Marie Corelli
Despite his readers having refused to recommend its publication, George BentleyRichard Bentley and Son decided to print MC 's first novel. He suggested a change in the title, on grounds that its original title, Lifted Up, was...
Publishing Rhoda Broughton
She had considered a number of possible titles for this novel, including Morning, Noon and Night and Life's Little Day. She eventually settled on Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye, which Bentley , despite her objections...
Publishing Caroline Leakey
First published in London in two volumes, it appeared in Hobart in 1860. The novel was written between March 1857 and March 1858. It went through three editions and three reprints between 1859 and 1900...
Publishing Marie Corelli
This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay (her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere .
As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is...
Publishing Catherine Maria Grey
CMG signed her next Bentley contract herself, for The Young Prima Donna in 1840.
Smith, Helen R. New Light on Sweeney Todd, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer and Elizabeth Caroline Grey. Jarndyce, 2002.
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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.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40.
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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 Mary Linskill
ML first reached a wide readership when her second novel, Between the Heather and the Northern Sea, emerged in three-volume form from Bentley , having been serialized in Good Words from January that year.
Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby, 1980.
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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.
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 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.
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, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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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...
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 Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
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...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan used another new publisher, Bentley , for her Belgian novel, The Princess; or, The Beguine, which appeared with a date of 1835.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
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Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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