The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street

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Acknowledgements Introduction: the common writer 1. Literature and charity: the Royal literary fund from David Williams to Charles Dickens 2. From prisons to pensions: Grub Street and its institutions 3. Bohemia in Fleet Street 4. The labouring muse: working-class writers and middle-class culture 5. The female drudge: women novelists and their publishers 6. Gissing's new Grub Street, 1880-1900 Notes Index.