Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

by Philip Waller

Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term "best-seller" was coined. In new and cheap editions Dickens's stories sold hugely, but these were progressively outstripped in quantity by the likes of Hall Caine and Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice and Nat Gould. Who has now heard of these writers? Yet Hall Caine, for one, boasted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199541205
• ISBN13: 9780199541201
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1194 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"