Table of Contents

South Mimms; leaving home - Notting Hill; the Brough brothers; business partnership - marriage partnerships; the circulating libraries and the three-volume novel; Sala sets the ball rolling; Mary Elizabeth Braddon; George Lawrence and Ouida; Mrs Henry Wood and Mrs J.H. Riddell; two failed take-overs; death of Edward; Sheridan Le Fanu and Rhoda Broughton; Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald; Harrison Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins; William Black and author-publisher relations; war correspondent-novelists - Russell and Henty; George Meredith and Thomas Hardy; Thomas Hardy's first three novels; Edmund Yates and "novel liaisons"; the office staff and management; hard labour or fulfilment for women in writing; "Tinsley's Magazine"; and 12 months of "Mirth"; R.J. Planche, dramatist and Somerset Herald; Benjamin Leopold Farjeon; Walter Besant and Richard Jefferies; some other Tinsley authors; life's rich pageant - J.L. Toole and Henry Irving; diminuendo doloroso; coda - speculation reconsidered. Appendices: dates in the history of the Tinsley brothers; check-list of books published by Tinsley Brothers, 1854-1888.