Introduction
Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870
1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870
2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury
3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers
Part Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-1870
4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract
5. Westward Ho!: ‘A Popularly Successful Book’
6. Trollope: Making the First Rank
7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank
8. Dickens as Publisher
9. Marketing Middlemarch
10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction
Notes
Index