Richard Bentley and Son

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Publishing Catherine Maria Grey
CMG signed her next Bentley contract herself, for The Young Prima Donna in 1840.
Smith, Helen R. New Light on Sweeney Todd, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer and Elizabeth Caroline Grey. Jarndyce, 2002.
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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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, No. 3, Sept. 2010, pp. 299-40.
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Publishing Rhoda Broughton
Her friend Ethel Arnold reported that Second Thoughts was RB 's own favourite among her works. She wrote it while another friend, Adelaide Kemble , was dying, and would read Kemble chapters at her bedside...
Publishing Mary Linskill
ML first reached a wide readership when her second novel, Between the Heather and the Northern Sea, emerged in three-volume form from Bentley , having been serialized in Good Words from January that year.
Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby, 1980.
prelims, 105
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.
Publishing Mary Shelley
There have been some doubts about MS 's authorship, but Bentley advertised the work as by her.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24.
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Publishing Isabel Hill
Bentley had already offered the translation job to three or four other writers. After Hill completed her work she learned that L. E. L had rendered Corinne's odes into English. In the end L.E.L's translations...
Publishing Mary Linskill
She worked on this novel through a recurrence of ill health: sleeplessness, neuralgia, and a failure of vitality. She dedicated it to Hyacinthe, Lady Dalby , who had supplied the material for A Garland of...
Publishing Emily Eden
Her publisher, Bentley , had offered her £250, but she held out for and got £300, and felt that the book's success had vindicated her bargaining.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20.
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Publishing Susanna Moodie
Spurred on by the need to make money, SM published four novels in three years, aiming to provide her audience with an easy read. The financial arrangement with her publisher Richard Bentley meant that she...
Reception Rosa Nouchette Carey
The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Reception Ouida
This novel was successful enough to make publisher Richard BentleyRichard Bentley and Son consider taking over publication of Ouida 's novels from Chapman and Hall .
qtd. in
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105.
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Reception Helen Mathers
Comin' Thro' the Rye sold over 35,000 copies for publisher Bentley and Son . HM had made a bad mistake in selling for 30 guineas the copyright in a novel which went on to make...
Residence Harriet Martineau
On her arrival she was courted by publishers Richard Bentley , Henry Colburn , and William Saunders for the right to issue reprints and new books.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 95-100
Textual Features Catherine Gore
CG told Sydney Morgan that her publisher, Bentley , had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery
Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ published with a range of firms several more novels attributed on their title-pages to the author of the Maid's Husband: Wedlock; or, Yesterday and To-Day, 1841 (again with Bentley ), The Smiths...
Textual Production Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan used another new publisher, Bentley , for her Belgian novel, The Princess; or, The Beguine, which appeared with a date of 1835.
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.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 386
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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