Richard Bentley

Broughton was apparently delighted with the positive reception of Red as a Rose is She. It was well reviewed in the Times and the Athenæum, and it proved even more popular with readers...

RB was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall. It...

Charles Wood relates that Richard Bentley requested a motto for the novel. EW eventually drew one from from Longfellow 's The Courtship of Miles Standish, feeling that this poem was so applicable to the...

It entertained readers through serialised fiction, biographical sketches, travel logs, and articles on current affairs. The journal eschewed politics, and tended to draw work from authors published by its owner, Richard Bentley . Following a...

Letters from AH to Richard Bentley , Douglas Cohen , and J. P. Collier (scholar and forger) survive in the Folger Library , while other manuscripts are held at the Swansea Museum.

HCJ published with Richard Bentley the first of her novels, Miss Aylmer; or, The Maid's Husband, anonymously: she began writing because her family needed the money.

She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley , without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. French and American editions soon followed. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press

Her papers are held at the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada . Letters to her publisher Richard Bentley are available in the British Library .

John Murray was apparently planning a collected edition of JA 's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...