George Bentley

CR formed warm personal relationships with many of her professional associates. She mentions genuine friendship with several publishers (even those who on occasion rejected her work): Thomas Cautley Newby and his woman of business,...

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

George Bentley referred to The Danvers Jewels as bright and humorous. In 1900, the Edinburgh Review judged that it had no great merit since the devices used had been worn rather threadbare in the...

It was a request from Bentley's for rewriting (following a vehemently negative report on Not Wisely, but Too Well in manuscript from reader Geraldine Jewsbury ) that caused RB 's second-written novel to appear in...

George Bentley eventually offered Broughton £250 for this novel, with the proviso that she expand it to three volumes. Broughton returned a succinct refusal both of the revisions specified and the sum offered: I am...

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...

CR particularly remembered the kindness and sympathy of George Bentley , then a junior partner in his father's firm. Though he, like everyone else, refused my work, I still left his office not unhappy.

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...

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 .

She told George Bentley about the books she recommended: I want the public to have the benefit of them especially women to whom so much trash & twaddle is daily administered. A contentious reader,...