A detailed study of working-class writers in the period 1830-70, writers such as Thomas Cooper, Thomas Miller, Charles Mackay, William Thom and William and Mary Howitt, whose work appeared in journals such as Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine and Howitt's Journal, this text examines the struggles of Victorian novelists and poets. It looks at how they found publishers and got into print, their readership and the view of the literary establishment. It includes the role of the Royal Literary Fund; the help, if any, from such established writers as Charles Dickens; and the part played by the Countess of Blessington, the patron of some these writers.

In the first biography of Longfellow in almost fifty years, Charles C. Calhoun seeks to solve a mystery: Why has one of America's most famous writers fallen into oblivion? His answer to this question takes us through a life story that reads like a Victorian family saga and reveals the man who introduced Americans to the literatures of other countries while creating a gallery of American icons - among them Paul Revere, John and Priscilla Alden, Miles Standish, the Village Blacksmith, Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

Keeping a promise to her friends in the Pals United for Furry Friends organization, ten-year-old Evangeline returns to Mudd Manor to try to rescue a group of minks before they are turned into ballet costumes.