Richard Bentley

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Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1794 - 1871

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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, 1944.
106
It...
Textual Features Ellen Wood
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...
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...
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, 1973–1993.
7: 171
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
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.
The old Dictionary of National Biography article on...
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...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley , without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
prelims
French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 197
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
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 .
Milner, Nina. “Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)”. Canadian Poetry Archive: National Library of Canada.
“The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue”. The British Library Website.

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