qtd. in
“Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print.
Richard Bentley
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Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1854 - 1936
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Ethel M. Arnold | The novelist Rhoda Broughton
was an early supporter of and influence on EA's writing. She helped EA place two early short stories, Mrs Verrinder (1886) and Edged Tools (1887) in Temple Bar through her publisher ... |
| 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 | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
wrote to publisher Richard Bentley
as follows regarding the possibility of compiling these memoirs: I have been looking over a great mass of papers relating to Frances Trollope. There is a vast deal of... |
| Publishing | Frances Mary Peard | When she made her enquiry of Bentley, FMP
felt that she had supplied this novel with a tidy name (the one under which it finally appeared) or even two to choose from. |
| Publishing | Sarah Grand | She noted that she had to publish the novel anonymously because My husband had a gt. [sic] dislike to having his name associated with my ideas. qtd. in Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 55 |
| Publishing | Fanny Kemble | This successful work was followed by two more popular collections from the same wellspring: Records of Later Life, published by 8 July 1882, and Further Records, 1848-1883: A series of letters . .... |
| Textual Production | Ethel M. Arnold | EA's sister Mary Ward
was less enthusiastic about her youngest sister's literary career, and responded unfavourably to an early offer from Bentley
for EA to write a serial. She wrote to their mother, I am... |
| Textual Production | Martin Ross | Richard Bentley
commissioned MR
and Edith Somerville
for a three-volume novel, which becameThe Real Charlotte. Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press, 1972. 38 |
| Travel | Frances Mary Peard | Living in Rome was compatible with even more travel elsewhere than FMP
had managed while living in England. Likely on 11 December 1898, for instance, she wrote to Richard Bentley
, mentioning that in a... |
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