Late Modernist Debuts: Publishing and Professionalizing Young Novelists in 1920s Britain
A man with an imperial connection of his own, Edward Bell (his publishing house's Indian and Colonial Library sold nearly 1.5 million books between 1894 and 1911), was equally emphatic in his rejection of young authors.2 He had edited Chatterton's poetical works early in his publishing car...
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