TY - BOOK AU - Hilliard,Christopher TI - To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain / T2 - Harvard Historical Studies ; SN - 9780674021778 AV - PR478.S57 ǂb H55 2006eb U1 - 820.9/0091 PY - 2009///] CY - Cambridge, MA : : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Authorship KW - Social aspects KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Democratization KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - Middle class in literature KW - Middle class KW - Social classes KW - Working class in literature KW - Working class writings, English KW - Working class KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General KW - sh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Literary History from Below --; Chapter 1. Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice --; Chapter 2. A Chance to Exercise Our Talents --; Chapter 3. Fiction and the Writing Public --; Chapter 4. In My Own Language about My Own People --; Chapter 5. Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition --; Chapter 6. People's Writing and the People's War --; Chapter 7. The Logic of Our Times --; Chapter 8. Popular Writing after the War --; Conclusion: On or about the End of the Chatterley Ban --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Manuscripts and Archives Consulted --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038653 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038653 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674038653/original ER -