The busiest man in England [[electronic resource] ] : Grant Allen and the writing trade, 1875-1900 / / Peter Morton
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Morton Peter <1946 Apr. 10->
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| Titolo: |
The busiest man in England [[electronic resource] ] : Grant Allen and the writing trade, 1875-1900 / / Peter Morton
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| Pubblicazione: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2005. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.914 |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, English - 19th century |
| Authorship - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | England Intellectual life 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : "the most hateful of professions?" -- 1. Canada and Oxford (1848-1873) -- 2. Jamaica (1873-1876) -- 3. Setting out the stall (1876-1880) -- 4. "A pedlar crying stuff" : selling the wares (1880-1889) -- 5. The stock in trade : writing science -- 6. The stock in trade : light fiction -- 7. The prosperous tradesman (1890-1895) -- 8. Dealing with the "dissenting grocer" -- 9. Retailing The woman who did -- 10. Last orders (1896-1899) -- Conclusion : "we of the proletariat..." |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year teaching stint in Jamaica. Despite his lifelong ill health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary productivity and range. About half - more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural travel guides. His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction; more than 30 novels, including The Woman Who Did , which has attracted much recent attention from feminist critics and historians. The Better End of Grub Street uses Allen's career to examine the role and status of the freelance author/journalist in the late-Victorian period. Allen's career delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough profession. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The busiest man in England |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36460-6 |
| 9786611364601 | |
| 1-4039-8099-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451079803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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