About the Book: New Grub Street
Caught between art and money, the dilemma of the Victorian writer Through the
foggy gloom of the British Museum Reading Room and the garrets of Londons
Tottenham Court Road, New Grub Street follows a collection of hack journalists,
aspiring newcomers and embittered veterans through the literary world of the
1880s. The novelist Edwin Reardon is trying vainly to balance his literary
ideals against the financial demands of a genteel wife; his shrewd friend
Milvain is eager to make the most of his own talents as a magazine writer.
Alfred Yule is conscious of waning powers in a crowded marketplace, and the
half-starved