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.
Richard Bentley
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Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1794 - 1871
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Isabel Hill | Her need for money having induced IH
to accept Richard Bentley
's offer to translate Germaine de Staël
's Corinne into English for his series Bentley's Standard Novels, her version appeared in print. Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 185-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Ann Hatton | 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. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 7: 171 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | CG
said that Bentley
paid her three hundred pounds for Cecil, but then made her refund sixty on the grounds that the novel was not saleable (in which he was wrong). Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta. 208 |
| Publishing | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
received 12 guineas for this first effort. After she sent a second poem to Bentley's, however, Richard Bentley
advised her that she would do better to turn her attention to prose works. The... |
| Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
| Textual Production | Charles Dickens | 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... |
| Reception | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
| Reception | Rhoda Broughton | 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. Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable. 106 |
| Textual Production | Jane Austen | 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... |
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