The common writer : life in nineteenth-century Grub Street / Nigel Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Nigel, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Journalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Journalism.

Literature and society.

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Authorship.

Great Britain.

History.

Authorship--Economic aspects--Great Britain.

Literature and society--Great Britain.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain.

Authors and publishers.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

London (England)--Intellectual life--19th century.

London (England).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Contents:

1 Literature and charity: the Royal literary fund from David Williams to Charles Dickens

2 From prisons to pensions: Grub Street and its institutions

3 Bohemia in Fleet Street

4 The labouring muse: working-class writers and middle-class culture

5 The female drudge: women novelists and their publishers

6 Gissing's new Grub Street, 1880-1900.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0521245648

OCLC:

11574802