Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
RB 's The Devil and the Deep Sea proved to be her last novel published with Macmillan (which had purchased Bentley's and acquired her copyrights in 1898).
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins, 1993.
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Publishing Fanny Kemble
Richard Bentley 's new edition of FK 's Poems included many printed for the first time, some dealing with her unhappy married life.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Adey, Lionel, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 32. Gale Research, 1984.
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Publishing Helen Mathers
Shortly after her husband 's death in early 1914, the increasingly deaf and rheumatic HM resurfaced to bring a lawsuit against her later publishers, Stanley Paul , in an attempt to secure the copyright of...
Publishing Frances Trollope
The two-volume book was simultaneously published in French, in Paris by A. and W. Galignani and Co.FT signed for ¥500 for the first two thousand copies issued by Richard Bentley .
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Publishing Fanny Aikin Kortright
She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...
Publishing Frances Power Cobbe
She paid for the printing, typesetting, and binding herself, though the book was nominally published by Bentley ; within three months she had made £600.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Publishing Catherine Gore
Best-known of her publications this year is Pin-Money. CG wrote out promotional paragraphs about this novel for her publisher, Bentley , to insert in his Court Journal.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
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...
Publishing Wilkie Collins
It was hard to find a publisher for Antonina until Bentley agreed to pay him a hundred pounds for it, with a further hundred to follow if the edition sold more than 500 copies (which...
Publishing Annie Tinsley
It was published also in New York. Charles Reade , who was himself at law with Bentley , later persuaded her to change publishers.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Publishing May Laffan
ML began her extensive correspondence with the firm of Macmillan , which, late in her career, took over from Richard Bentley as her British publisher.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
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Publishing Marie Corelli
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...
Publishing Catherine Maria Grey
CMG 's The Duke, her third novel, was published in three volumes as a result of her first contract with Richard Bentley (who was to publish just one more of her works).
John Bull.
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Spedding, Patrick. “The Many Mrs. Greys: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey, and Others”. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol.
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Publishing May Laffan
This was the last novel to appear before ML 's marriage (after which she reputedly gave up writing). Apart from Bentley 's edition, ML 's American publisher Henry Holt published or re-published it at New...
Publishing Marie Corelli
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 .
As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is...

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Mathers, Helen. Comin’ Thro’ The Rye. Fourth Edition, Richard Bentley and Son, 1876, 3 vols.
Mathers, Helen. Eyre’s Acquittal. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884, 3 vols.
Mathers, Helen. Sam’s Sweetheart. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. An Irish Cousin. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889, 2 vols.
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son, 1879.
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Driftwood from Scandinavia. Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.