This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development
of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. It
provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic
factors that control literary activity, and determine literary
success or failure. There are chapters on the place of women and
working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class
publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on
patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary
journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the
facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis
and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on
the status of writers and the state of literature. Drawing on a
wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds
substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary
history and culture.
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