Richard Bentley and Son

As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist. She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...

CS published through Bentley in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.

By early 1876, someone using the name of Fanny Power Cobbe (legitimately as it turned out, but apparently impersonating FPC ) sent submissions to George Bentley (of the publishing house ), Tinsley's Magazine, and...

London Homes by CS , published in 1853 in London by Bentley , brought together its title novella with a collection of disparate writings, each of which is freshly paginated: short fiction, a play (...

Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth...

SM published (again with Richard Bentley ) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance.

AT published with Bentley another novel, Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, and its Victims. An Autobiography, which she later defended with vigour against its critics who thought it derivative from other novels.

RB , who published almost exclusively with Bentley throughout her career, preferred to receive a lump sum for her novels rather than to rely on royalites and copyright earnings. In her reminiscence Ethel Arnold suggests...