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Edward Lloyd and His World: Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

Edward Lloyd and His World: Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

Lill, Sarah Louise
McWilliam, Rohan

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismBusiness of Writing

ISBN10: 0367206145
ISBN13: 9780367206147
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls', which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author.

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