Victorian novelists and publishers

Novel publishing 1830-1870

Mass market and big business: novel publishing at midcentury

Craft versus trade: novelists and publishers

Henry Esmond: the shaping power of contract

Westward Ho!: 'a popularly successful book'

Trollope: making the first rank

Lever and Ainsworth: missing the first rank

Dickens as publisher

Marketing Middlemarch

Hardy: breaking into fiction.