Richard Bentley and Son

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Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB used her pseudonym to publish with Richard Bentley and Son of London her first novel, A Fair Country Maid, which expresses her socialist views.
Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921. “New Novels”. The Academy, Vol.
24
, No. 585, 21 July 1883, p. 42.
585 (21 July 1883): 42
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB 's publication of her novel The Heir Without a Heritage (with Richard Bentley and Son , as E. Fairfax Byrrne), displayed her increasingly unorthodox religious and political views.
Anonymous,. “The Times Column of New Books and New Editions”. The Times, No. 32075, 18 May 1887, p. 14.
32075 (18 May 1887): 14
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
The success of woman novelists in the circulating libraries led many publishers to employ women readers.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
156-7
GJ used her position with Richard Bentley and Son to promote women writers such as Margaret Oliphant and...
Textual Production Helen Mathers
Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess
“People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol.
20
, No. 508, 9 Sept. 1893, p. 191.
191
and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
74
The poem was published...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley : a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
392 (1835): 334
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195
Textual Production Annie Tinsley
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.
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.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
1, 8
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production May Laffan
Richard Bentley published, anonymously, the edition of ML 's Christy Carew which is reckoned by most scholars (though not by Helena Kelleher Kahn ), to be the first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2728 (1880): 182
Wealth and Poverty Rhoda Broughton
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...

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