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When she heard of an adventure at Lovere, she, who herself had a gift for novel-writing, must needs send an account of it to Lady Bute, saying that it exactly resembled and, she believed, was copied from Pamela. "I know not under what constellation that foolish stuff was wrote, but it has been translated into more languages than any modern performance I ever heard of," she added.
Few things can be more unsatisfactory and insipid than his attempts in the 'silver-fork school' of novel-writing his dreary commonplaces of fashionable life his faded sermonisings on domestic, and political, and social economy. Few things can be more inspiriting, more energetic, more impressive, than his pictures of
Meredith writing sparely and unnoticed, the new romantic school not arisen, and no recruit of distinction except Mr. Blackmore firmly set, things were apparently a great deal worse with us in point of novel-writing than they are at present.
Indeed it has been observed by the sarcastic that to some readers of novels, and even to some writers of them, "novel" and "book" seem to be synonymous terms, and that when such persons speak of "literature," they mean and pretty distinctly indicate that they mean novel-writing, and novel-writing only.
Her spontaneity of feeling and the actual fecundity, as it were, of her imaginative gift, could not be restrained, concentrated, and formally arranged as it was in the case of the two first masters of modern French novel-writing. Her work in this respect may be compared to a gold mine, while theirs is rather the goldsmith's craft.
Thus, you will perceive, it is impossible for me to give any encouragement to you to proceed in novel-writing. "As, however, I understand you have nearly finished the novel La Vendee, perhaps you will favour me with a sight of it when convenient. I remain, etc., etc., This, though not strictly logical, was a rational letter, telling a plain truth plainly.
One of the drawing-room critics who uphold the literature of lords and ladies, sums up the merits of fashionable novel-writing as follows: "After all, it is something to scrutinize lords and ladies, recline on satin sofas, eat off silver dishes whose nomenclature is the glory of l'artiste though only in a book."
Fisher Unwin, a modest sum in payment of the royalties due to me on the sales. Perhaps I may say something on the strength of my limited experience on the subject of novel-writing. It may seem presumptuous to do so, seeing that everybody nowadays either writes a novel or thinks that he or she can do so.
There is something naive and simple in that time-honoured style of novel-writing by which Prince Prettyman, at the end of his adventures, is put in possession of every worldly prosperity, as he has been endowed with every mental and bodily excellence previously. The novelist thinks that he can do no more for his darling hero than make him a lord.
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. So he goes to work.
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