My Missus
John Sutherland, 13 May 1993
Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950
by Joseph McAleer.
Oxford, 284 pp., £35, December 1992,0 19 820329 2 Show More
by Joseph McAleer.
Oxford, 284 pp., £35, December 1992,
American Star: A Love Story
by Jackie Collins.
Heinemann, 568 pp., £14.99, March 1993,0 434 14093 7 Show More
by Jackie Collins.
Heinemann, 568 pp., £14.99, March 1993,
“... working-class literature than about Lapland. In a much quoted essay twenty years later, Wilkie Collins, after a similar expedition, coined the phrase ‘the Unknown Public’. It was something of a misnomer since the public was well enough known. It was their ‘entertaining literature’ that was the mystery. English society put such a moral premium on ... ”