Bentley family

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The Bentley family is a British publishing dynasty best known for its influential 19th-century literary ventures and associations with prominent authors such as Charles Dickens.

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instanceOf British family
publishing family
activePeriod 19th century
associatedWith Anthony Trollope
Benjamin Disraeli
Captain Marryat
Charles Dickens
Charles Reade
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Frances Trollope
linked to: Fanny Trollope

G. P. R. James
Mrs. Henry Wood
Sheridan Le Fanu
Wilkie Collins
William Harrison Ainsworth
businessAcquiredBy Macmillan Publishers
businessFounded Richard Bentley publishing house
collaboratedWith Charles Dickens
conflictWith Charles Dickens
country United Kingdom
era Victorian era
familyBusinessType family-run publishing house
founder Richard Bentley
genreFocus Victorian fiction
novels
periodicals
historicalSignificance early publisher of Charles Dickens
helped shape Victorian literary culture
industry publishing
languageOfPublication English
legacy important catalog of Victorian novels
integration of their firm into Macmillan catalogue
locationHeadquarters London
linked to: London, England
notableFor 19th-century literary publishing
associations with prominent Victorian authors
notableMember Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley Jr.
operatedImprint Bentley’s Miscellany
Standard Novels series
publishedWork Bentley’s Miscellany magazine
Oliver Twist
roleInPublishing publisher of serialized fiction
publisher of three-volume novels
successorInBusiness Richard Bentley Jr.

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Bentley's Miscellany publisher Bentley family