Sutherland 1976
From Commonplace Book
Sutherland, John A. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Print.
Intro
- 1: Even where they did not directly interfere in the novelist's life, the composition of his fiction or the form of his literary vehicle, the publisher's skills were often as instrumental to success as anything the author might contribute.
- 5 Louis James in his Fiction for the Working Man lists ninety publishers of penny-installment fiction between 1830 and 1850, which at a conservative estimate means that for every producer above the literary threshold there were ten beneath it.
