- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- I The Reading World
- 1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies
- 2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private
- 3 Literary Advice and Advisers
- 4 Reviews and Reviewers
- 5 The Great Tradition
- 6 The Commemoration Movement
- 7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’*
- II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame
- 8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising
- 9 The Star Turn
- 10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- 11 Securing the Future
- 12 Titles and Laurels
- 13 Social Prestige and Clubbability
- 14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle
- 15 Looking and Acting the Part
- 16 Lecture Tours
- 17 Literary Properties and Agencies
- III Best-sellers
- 18 Market Conditions
- 19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice
- 20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay
- 21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine
- 22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli
- 23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field
- IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits
- 24 The Campaign Trail
- 25 Public Service and Party Politics
- 26 Pens at War
- 27 Pricking Censorship
- 28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology
- Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
Literary Advice and Advisers
Literary Advice and Advisers
- Chapter:
- (p.68) 3 Literary Advice and Advisers
- Source:
- Writers, Readers, and Reputations
- Author(s):
Philip Waller (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter is concerned with who stepped forward to direct the novice reader, beginning with the ‘Best Hundred Books’ phenomenon launched by Sir John Lubbock in 1885. It argues that too much emphasis has been given to Victorians' earnestness and that the sheer enjoyment to be gained from book-reading was proclaimed by a variety of enthusiasts. The spirit of the New Journalism was democratic and eclectic. The foremost popular literary magazine to emerge after the turn of the century — targeting women as well as male readers — was T. P.'s Weekly, founded by T. P. O'Connor, and featuring Arnold Bennett as a regular columnist. Similarly influential among Nonconformist readers, by breaking down their antipathy to fiction, was The British Weekly, whose longstanding editor William Robertson Nicoll also founded The Bookman.
Keywords: best Hundred Books, victorian earnestness, new Journalism, t. P.'s Weekly, the British Weekly, nonconformist readers
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- I The Reading World
- 1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies
- 2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private
- 3 Literary Advice and Advisers
- 4 Reviews and Reviewers
- 5 The Great Tradition
- 6 The Commemoration Movement
- 7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’*
- II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame
- 8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising
- 9 The Star Turn
- 10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- 11 Securing the Future
- 12 Titles and Laurels
- 13 Social Prestige and Clubbability
- 14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle
- 15 Looking and Acting the Part
- 16 Lecture Tours
- 17 Literary Properties and Agencies
- III Best-sellers
- 18 Market Conditions
- 19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice
- 20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay
- 21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine
- 22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli
- 23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field
- IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits
- 24 The Campaign Trail
- 25 Public Service and Party Politics
- 26 Pens at War
- 27 Pricking Censorship
- 28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology
- Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
