Boomster and the Quack
Stefan Collini: How to Get on in the Literary World, 2 November 2006
Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
by Philip Waller.
Oxford, 1181 pp., £85, April 2006,0 19 820677 1 Show More
by Philip Waller.
Oxford, 1181 pp., £85, April 2006,
“... in which the publisher appears to have colluded with the author. Take the appearances of one John Morgan Richards. On page 65 we are introduced to him as an ‘American, domiciled in England since 1867 and now owner of the Academy’. On page 92 we are told that ‘the Academy had been bought in 1896 by the American patent-medicine advertiser John ... ”