Publishers' "Lives" in the Victorian Period.
Memoirs of nineteenth-century publishers have been read mainly as sources for author biography or for the cultural and economic history of print rather than as literary works in their own right. Yet even as they afforded paradigmatic narratives of commercial success, autobiographies and biographies...
| Published in: | Victorian Studies Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 85 - 110 |
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Indiana University Press
2020
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