2. Auto/biography, Fiction and the ‘Struggling’ Woman Author, 1832–55

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Series Editors’ Preface x
6. Notes on Contributors xi
7. Introduction: Life Writing and the Literary Market 1
8. 1. ‘Paying the double debt’: Journalism, Autobiography and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace 17
9. 2. Auto/biography, Fiction and the ‘Struggling’ Woman Author, 1832–55 45
10. 3. The Way We Trade in Women’s Roles, Then and Now: The Trollope Brothers, Queens, Race and International Biographical Histories 74
11. 4. ‘Turn[ing] a penny’, Turning the Page: Autobiography and Midcentury Reviewing 105
12. 5. Paper Tiger: The Ghost of Nana Sahib in British Newspapers 134
13. 6. Biography in Bits and Pieces: Selling Ethel Dickens in the Periodical Press 161
14. 7. Marketing the Black Experience: Diasporic Victorian Blackness in Three Acts 189
15. 8. ‘Good workmanship and convenient arrangement’: Marketing Commercial Diaries in Victorian Periodicals 218
16. Works Cited 244
17. Index 263