Stephen Basdeo, Mya Driver

Victorian England's Bestselling Author (eBook, ePUB)

The Revolutionary Life of G. W. M. Reynolds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

George W.M. Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his "penny blood" The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds's Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Court of London (1849-56), contained tales of crime, vice, and highly sexualised scenes. For this reason Charles Dickens remarked that Reynolds's name was one "with which no lady's, and no gentleman's, should be associated." Yet Reynolds was much more than just a novelist; he was lauded by the working classes as their champion and campaigned for universal suffrage. To further the working classes' cause, he established two newspapers: Reynolds's Political Instructor and Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper. The latter newspaper, as Karl Marx recognized, became the principal organ of radical and labour politics. This book provides a biography of Reynolds and reproduces his editorials from Reynolds's Political Instructor as well as excerpts from his fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399015738
• Artikelnr.: 70127341

Autorenporträt

Dr Stephen Basdeo is Assistant Professor of History at Richmond University (RIASA Leeds). His research interests include Georgian and Victorian medievalism, as well as the history of crime. He has published widely in these areas for both an academic and non-academic audience, and regularly blogs about his research on his website (www.gesteofrobinhood.com). He has published two other works with Pen and Sword: The Life and Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler (2018) and The Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Rogues, and Murderers (2018).