qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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George Bentley
Standard Name: Bentley, George
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Riddell | 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,... |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | George Bentley
referred to The Danvers Jewels as bright and humorous. |
| 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 | 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 | Rhoda Broughton | 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... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | 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. qtd. in Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 17 |
| Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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. qtd. in Carney, Karen M. “The Publisher’s Reader as Feminist: The Career of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 29 , No. 2, 1 June 1996– 2024, pp. 146-58. 149 |
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...
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3 June 1829
Publisher Henry Colburn
went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871)
(who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley
as printers).
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under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
10 September 1871: Richard Bentley, publisher, died at Ramsgate...
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10 September 1871
Richard Bentley
, publisher, died at Ramsgate in Kent; his firm passed to his son George
, and continued to publish under his name until 1898.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
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under George Bentley
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