@article{428196,
      recid = {428196},
      author = {Pool, Daniel.},
      title = {Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters : the  rows and romances of England's great Victorian novelists /},
      publisher = {HarperCollins,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvi, 282 p. :},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {In his bestselling What Jane Austen Ate and Charles  Dickens Knew, Daniel Pool brilliantly unlocked the  mysteries of the English novel. Now, in his long-awaited  Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters, Pool  turns his keen eye to England's great Victorian novelists  themselves, to reveal the surprisingly human private side  of their public genius. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's  Unanswered Letters explores the outrageous publicity  stunts, bitter rivalries, rows, and general mayhem  perpetrated by this group of supposedly prudish - yet  remarkably passionate and eccentric - authors and  publishers. Against a vividly painted backdrop of London as  the small world it once was, the book brings on the players  in the ever-changing, brave new world of big publishing - a  world that gave birth to author tours, big advances,  "trashy" fiction, flashy bookstalls in train stations (for  Victorian "airport fiction"), celebrity libel suits, bogus  blurbs, even paper recycling (as unsold volumes reappeared  as trunk linings, fish wrappings, and fertilizer).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428196},
}