Richard Bentley manuscript material

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{"value"=>"19418", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Richard Bentley manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1832-1833", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1832/1833"}

physdesc

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date_inclusive_start

1832

date_inclusive_end

1833

origination

{"value"=>"Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Richard Bentley, English printer and publisher. His major contributions to nineteenth-century publishing are the Standard Novels, freshly revised texts of major contemporary authors made affordable for the middle class ; Bentley's Miscellany, the periodical in which Dickens's Oliver Twist was first published ; and Temple Bar, a popular literary magazine.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>To Jane Porter, novelist : 3 autograph letters signed : 10 Oct 1832 - 8 Nov 1833 : (MISC 2359-2361) : on publishing matters. Bentley declines an offer for republication of Anna Maria Porter's Don Sebastian, arranges payment for Jane's introductions for her 'Standard Novels' editons, and declines to reprint a work.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

keydate

1832

prefercite

{"value"=>"Richard Bentley manuscript material : 3 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Richard Bentley, English printer and publisher. His major contributions to nineteenth-century publishing are the Standard Novels, freshly revised texts of major contemporary authors made affordable for the middle class ; Bentley's Miscellany, the periodical in which Dickens's Oliver Twist was first published ; and Temple Bar, a popular literary magazine. To Jane Porter, novelist : 3 autograph letters signed : 10 Oct 1832 - 8 Nov 1833 : (MISC 2359-2361) : on publishing matters. Bentley declines an offer for republication of Anna Maria Porter's Don Sebastian, arranges payment for Jane's introductions for her 'Standard Novels' editons, and declines to reprint a work.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

3 items

date_start

1832

date_end

1833

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