Paul Hiffernan

Brothers of the Quill

• Author(s): Norma Clarke

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-04-18
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• Publisher: Harvard University Press

Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Stre...

Notes and Queries

• Categories: Electronic journals

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1857
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Register

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1806
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• Publisher: Unknown

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London Journal of Medicine

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1851
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The history of Irish periodical literature, from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 19th century

• Author(s): Richard Robert Madden

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1867
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• Publisher: Unknown

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