Conversations with Dickens by Paul Schlicke

Author:Paul Schlicke
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786783905
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

A PALTRY, WRETCHED, MISERABLE SUM

Dickens enjoyed cordial personal relationships with various publishers during his career, but there were also bitter quarrels over the respective rights of the author and those who produced the works. Conditioned by the experience of his father’s financial troubles, warned by the example of Sir Walter Scott’s bankruptcy, and faced with a large family to support, Dickens was categorical as to what he considered his legitimate income as a professional artist. Early in his career, his meteoric rise to fame rendered financial terms obsolete almost as fast as they were agreed, and he broke with one publisher after another. But in the end, he could command contracts that made him, in effect, his own publisher.

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