TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patten, Robert L 
AU  - Patten, Robert L 
TI  - Charles Dickens and his Publishers
SN  - 9780198807346
U1  - 823.8 PAT 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  -  : Oxford University Press, 
KW  - English literatures
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Relations with publishers
KW  - Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870
KW  - Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Authors and publishers
KW  - Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
KW  - Relations with publishers
KW  - Serial publication of books
KW  - Novelists, English
N1  - The professional author --
Sketches by Boz and Macrone --
Pickwick Papers and the development of serial fiction --
Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand --
'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' --
Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' --
Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit --
The break --
With Bradbury and Evans --
Dombey and Son, 'the great success' --
David Copperfield and the cheap edition --
Bleak House and the literary croesus --
Working the copywrights --
Return to Chapman and Hall --
'The end' --
The audience widens --
Appendices. Sales and profits of Dickens works, 1846-70 --
The printing history of Dickens monthly serials, 1846-70 --
Income from Dicken's works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 --
Income from Household Works and All the Year Round
N2  - 	
A fascinating account of Charles Dickens' relations with his publishers; Relates the story of the novelist's social encounters, violent breaches, and uneasy alliances with John Macrone, Richard Bentley, Edward and Frederic Chapman, William Hall, Bernhard Tauchnitz, William Bradbury, F M Evans, and his American publishers; Draws on accounts rendered to Dickens by Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall every six months from 1846; Identifies the sources and size of Dicken's income and traces the fluctuating fortunes of various books
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