The common writer : life in nineteenth-century Grub Street /Nigel Cross
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New York :Cambridge University Press, 1985Description: vi, 265 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521357210Subject(s): Literature | English literature | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | JournalismDDC classification: 820.9008 CRO Summary: The Common Writer examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, it provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure
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ntroduction: The common writer. Literature and charity: the royal literary fund from David Williams to Charles Dickens --
From prisons to pensions: Grub Street and its institutions --
Bohemia in Fleet Street --
The labouring muse: working-class writers and middle-class culture --
The female drudge: women novelists and their publishers --
Gissing's new Grub Street, 1880-1900.
The Common Writer examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, it provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure
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