… ‘Grub Street’ and ‘hack writer’, the other was trying to write something that sold as well as possible. There is a long tradition in British literature of ‘true’ or ‘literary’ authors looking down on all forms of publication, with all of its … book market, which was not yet evolved enough to provide writers with a steady income, but which had already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: …