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Article: Mike Ashley. The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950.(Book review)
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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- March 22, 2007
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Mike Ashley. The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950. New Castle, Del., and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2006. x, 308 pp. 132 illus.; US $95.00; 45.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 158456170X (US); 0712306986 (UK).
Serialized fiction, a staple of 19th-century periodicals, flowed from pens of authors as eminent as Dickens and Thackeray, who themselves doubled as magazine editors. The later advent of cheaper, mass-produced magazines, often priced at no more than six-pence, provided millions of readers with an abundance of popular fiction, nurtured authors of the stature of Stevenson, Haggard, and Conan Doyle, and may ...