Literature for the people : how the pioneering Macmillan brothers built a publishing powerhouse
Harkness, Sarah (Sarah Helen)2024
Books, Manuscripts
Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, went on to set up a publishing house that spread radical ideas on equality, science and education across the world. They also brought authors like Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy and Charles Kingsley, and poets like Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, to a mass audience. No longer would books be just for the upper classes. In this book, Sarah Harkness brings to life these two warm-hearted men. Daniel was driven by the knowledge that he was living on borrowed time, his body was ravaged by tuberculosis. Alexander took on responsibility for the company as well as Daniel's family and turned a small business into an international powerhouse.
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Author:
Harkness, Sarah (Sarah Helen), author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2024.
Collation:
480 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781035008933 (hbk)
Dewey class:
070.5094109034070.5094
LC class:
Z325.M3
Local class:
070.509
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3812000
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