Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel

Griest, Guinevere L.
Publication Date 1971
ISBN 0715353098
Publisher David & Charles,
Binding Hardback
Condition Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper
SKU 21056
Notes Bookshop invoice dated 1974 and addressed to the late Professor Christopher Heywood laid in. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed and is slightly sunned to spine.

Description

Hardback. 272pp. A study of the complicated relations between writer, publisher and reader though the influence of Charles Edward Mudie and his Circulating Library and his nearest rival WH Smith, with particular focus on the works of George Eliot, Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Mrs Humphrey Ward, George Moore, Margaret Oliphant, George Gissing, Rhoda Broughton, Harrison Ainsworth as well as publishers William Heinemann, Alexander Macmillan, Richard Bentley and John Blackwood.
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