Elizabeth King guest lectures and tutors at the University of New South Wales, where she has taught for the last five years. Her work has appeared in Geniuses, Addicts and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture (2023), and she is the co- editor of Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority and Fictionality (2023) with Alison Gibbons. She currently works as an editor at Simon & Schuster Australia.

• Novels about Novelists: An Undetected Epidemic?The Author-Story in Criticism Reading Closely, from a Distance A Theory of the Author-Story The Rise of Novels about Novelists PART I: Writing to Survive (1850–1899)1. Narratives of Failure: The Artist and His Antagonists in Victorian-Author StoriesPoverty as Purity in Carlyle’s "The Hero as Man of Letters" From Pot-Boiler to Polemic: Herman Melville’s Pierre Pardoning the "unpardonable sin" in George Gissing’s New Grub Street Failing to Succeed and Succeeding in Failure: Mixed Metaphors in Henry James’s Author-Stories Conclusions 2. Woman or Writer? Silly Lady Novelists and New Woman Writers Silly Lady Novelists and the New Woman Writer An Impasse: Olympia’s Journal The Story of a Modern Woman by "A Spinster of Independent Means" George Paston: A Writer of Books Red Pottage: Mary Cholmondeley’s "Child of the Brain" Conclusions PART II: After the Great Divide (1900–1950)3. The Poet in the Prose: Childhood and Romanticism in the Modernist Künstlerroman The Autobiographical Künstlerroman A Romantic Connection: The Child and the Poet Tonio Kröger: Thomas Mann’s "Favorite Literary Child" James Joyce’s Portrait of the Poet as a Prose Writer Thomas Wolfe’s Long Look Homeward Conclusions 4. "Buried at the Cross-Roads": The Disappearing Acts of Women Writers Masculinity, Modernity, Celebrity Where are all the Women Writers? "Probably they all wrote, except the women": Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage Edith Wharton’s Modernist and His Muse "The buried woman...the great man": Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel Conclusions CODA: The Author-Story after 1950 Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CIndex

Elizabeth King guest lectures and tutors at the University of New South Wales, where she has taught for the last five years. Her work has appeared in Geniuses, Addicts and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture (2023), and she is the co- editor of Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority and Fictionality (2023) with Alison Gibbons. She currently works as an editor at Simon & Schuster Australia.

• Novels about Novelists: An Undetected Epidemic?The Author-Story in Criticism Reading Closely, from a Distance A Theory of the Author-Story The Rise of Novels about Novelists PART I: Writing to Survive (1850–1899)1. Narratives of Failure: The Artist and His Antagonists in Victorian-Author StoriesPoverty as Purity in Carlyle’s "The Hero as Man of Letters" From Pot-Boiler to Polemic: Herman Melville’s Pierre Pardoning the "unpardonable sin" in George Gissing’s New Grub Street Failing to Succeed and Succeeding in Failure: Mixed Metaphors in Henry James’s Author-Stories Conclusions 2. Woman or Writer? Silly Lady Novelists and New Woman Writers Silly Lady Novelists and the New Woman Writer An Impasse: Olympia’s Journal The Story of a Modern Woman by "A Spinster of Independent Means" George Paston: A Writer of Books Red Pottage: Mary Cholmondeley’s "Child of the Brain" Conclusions PART II: After the Great Divide (1900–1950)3. The Poet in the Prose: Childhood and Romanticism in the Modernist Künstlerroman The Autobiographical Künstlerroman A Romantic Connection: The Child and the Poet Tonio Kröger: Thomas Mann’s "Favorite Literary Child" James Joyce’s Portrait of the Poet as a Prose Writer Thomas Wolfe’s Long Look Homeward Conclusions 4. "Buried at the Cross-Roads": The Disappearing Acts of Women Writers Masculinity, Modernity, Celebrity Where are all the Women Writers? "Probably they all wrote, except the women": Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage Edith Wharton’s Modernist and His Muse "The buried woman...the great man": Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel Conclusions CODA: The Author-Story after 1950 Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CIndex

Elizabeth King guest lectures and tutors at the University of New South Wales, where she has taught for the last five years. Her work has appeared in Geniuses, Addicts and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture (2023), and she is the co- editor of Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority and Fictionality (2023) with Alison Gibbons. She currently works as an editor at Simon & Schuster Australia.

• Novels about Novelists: An Undetected Epidemic?The Author-Story in Criticism Reading Closely, from a Distance A Theory of the Author-Story The Rise of Novels about Novelists PART I: Writing to Survive (1850–1899)1. Narratives of Failure: The Artist and His Antagonists in Victorian-Author StoriesPoverty as Purity in Carlyle’s "The Hero as Man of Letters" From Pot-Boiler to Polemic: Herman Melville’s Pierre Pardoning the "unpardonable sin" in George Gissing’s New Grub Street Failing to Succeed and Succeeding in Failure: Mixed Metaphors in Henry James’s Author-Stories Conclusions 2. Woman or Writer? Silly Lady Novelists and New Woman Writers Silly Lady Novelists and the New Woman Writer An Impasse: Olympia’s Journal The Story of a Modern Woman by "A Spinster of Independent Means" George Paston: A Writer of Books Red Pottage: Mary Cholmondeley’s "Child of the Brain" Conclusions PART II: After the Great Divide (1900–1950)3. The Poet in the Prose: Childhood and Romanticism in the Modernist Künstlerroman The Autobiographical Künstlerroman A Romantic Connection: The Child and the Poet Tonio Kröger: Thomas Mann’s "Favorite Literary Child" James Joyce’s Portrait of the Poet as a Prose Writer Thomas Wolfe’s Long Look Homeward Conclusions 4. "Buried at the Cross-Roads": The Disappearing Acts of Women Writers Masculinity, Modernity, Celebrity Where are all the Women Writers? "Probably they all wrote, except the women": Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage Edith Wharton’s Modernist and His Muse "The buried woman...the great man": Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel Conclusions CODA: The Author-Story after 1950 Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CIndex