The Oxford Book of Work

I did not notice, in this massive anthology related to work, any librarians reporting their experience, but their many contributions relating to authorship and scholarship. Among those that caught my eye was Anthony Trollope, listing “the books I have written, with the dates of their publication and the sums I have received for them”. For his first‐listed, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847), Trollope received £48 6s. 9d. He got £3,000 for The Last Chronicle of Barset and in total, he records an income of £68,939 17s. 5d. (46 titles and “Sundries”). This extract is followed by one from Victorian journalist,...