Richard Bentley and Son

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Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
EFB 's publication of her novel The Heir Without a Heritage (with Richard Bentley and Son , as E. Fairfax Byrrne), displayed her increasingly unorthodox religious and political views.
Anonymous,. “The Times Column of New Books and New Editions”. The Times, No. 32075, 18 May 1887, p. 14.
32075 (18 May 1887): 14
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
The success of woman novelists in the circulating libraries led many publishers to employ women readers.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1977.
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GJ used her position with Richard Bentley and Son to promote women writers such as Margaret Oliphant and...
Textual Production Helen Mathers
Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess
“People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol.
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, No. 508, 9 Sept. 1893, p. 191.
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and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
74
The poem was published...
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 Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's Belford Regis appeared from Richard Bentley : a three-volume collection of sketches set in a thinly-disguised Reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
392 (1835): 334
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195
Textual Production Annie Tinsley
AT published with Bentley another novel, Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, and its Victims. An Autobiography, which she later defended with vigour against its critics who thought it derivative from other novels.
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.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production May Laffan
Richard Bentley published, anonymously, the edition of ML 's Christy Carew which is reckoned by most scholars (though not by Helena Kelleher Kahn ), to be the first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2728 (1880): 182
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
Harriet Gordon (later Smythies) published anonymously Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor. A Novel. To which is added Claude Stocq, a novel sharing three volumes with the unrelated Claude Stocq: A Tale of the Sixteenth...
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
The year 1873 saw the publication of a collection of RB 's uncanny short stories, Tales for Christmas Eve, once again from Richard Bentley and Son . An edition of 1879 was re-titled Twilight...
Textual Production Catherine Sinclair
CS published through Bentley in London a lengthy (three-volume) anti-Catholic novel entitled Beatrice, or, The Unknown Relatives.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1301 (2 October 1852): 1064
Textual Production Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Translations from Petrarch 's sonnets by BBBD , collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo reprinted them at the end of his...
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM published (again with Richard Bentley ) another novel: The World Before Them, featuring an under-appreciated heroine named Dorothy Chance.
Moodie, Susanna. The World Before Them. R. Bentley, 1867, 3 vols.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Textual Production Catherine Sinclair
London Homes by CS , published in 1853 in London by Bentley , brought together its title novella with a collection of disparate writings, each of which is freshly paginated: short fiction, a play (...
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.
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Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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