Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters
Subtitle: the rows and rivalries of England's great Victorian novelists
By: Daniel Pool.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; HarperCollins
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century; Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 19th century; Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Social conditions; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Economic conditions; Fiction -- Authorship -- Economic aspects -- England; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: In his bestselling What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool brilliantly unlocked the mysteries of the English novel. Now, in his long-awaited Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters, Pool turns his keen eye to England's great Victorian novelists themselves, to reveal the surprisingly human private side of their public genius.

Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters explores the outrageous publicity stunts, bitter rivalries, rows, and general mayhem perpetrated by this group of supposedly prudish - yet remarkably passionate and eccentric - authors and publishers.

Against a vividly painted backdrop of London as the small world it once was, the book brings on the players in the ever-changing, brave new world of big publishing - a world that gave birth to author tours, big advances, "trashy" fiction, flashy bookstalls in train stations (for Victorian "airport fiction"), celebrity libel suits, bogus blurbs, even paper recycling (as unsold volumes reappeared as trunk linings, fish wrappings, and fertilizer).
Notes: 145,784

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).