Dr. Sutherland is Reader in English at University College London. He previously lectured at Edinburgh University and has held visiting academic posts in the United States. As well as contributing to many academic journals he has reviewed fiction and literary studies for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman and published articles on the booktrade in The New Review and New Society. His previous books are Thackeray at Work (1974) and Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976) and he has edited novels boy Trollope and Thackeray for the Penguin English Library.

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• Introduction Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-18701. Novel Publishing 1830-18702. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and PublishersPart Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-18704. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract5. Westward Ho!: ‘A Popularly Successful Book’ 6. Trollope: Making the First Rank7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank8. Dickens as Publisher9. Marketing Middlemarch10. Hardy: Breaking into FictionNotesIndex