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… a steady income, but which had already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when the condition of a … so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works.’ 6 6 . Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Works of Lord Macaulay, 12 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898), vol. 8, p. 85-90. Of course, the self-celebration of the ‘age …
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