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- The Art of Fiction
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- Besant, Walter (DNB12)
WB was intimidated by the emerging New Woman movement and distanced himself from his sister-in-law's controversial feminist views.
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However, like many late Victorians, he was concerned with the Woman Question, but his views were ambivalent. He cares deeply about his many projects, often funding them out of his own pocket, and he leaves an impressive legacy. WB's debut solo novel, All Sorts and Conditions of Men , anticipates the emergence of slum fiction in the last decades of the Victorian era. The novel, which immediately becomes very popular and sells , copies, describes the working-class inhabitants of London's East End slums who live in a cultural void resulting in their almost total social exclusion.
It is what he is remembered most for today, because it starts a debate on the purpose of literary fiction that includes contributions by Andrew Lang, R. In his lecture, RB deals with the professional development of an author, complaining that there are no training institutions for writers. He argues that fiction is a fine art and its rules and conventions should be studied by beginning authors who want to enter the profession.
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Finally, he claims that fiction has moral purpose which should raise a reader's social conscience. Founds and becomes first Chairman of the Society of Authors, the first successful organization for writers in the United Kingdom, established for the protection of literary property.
WB calls for the amendment of the laws of domestic copyright and the promotion of international copyright. The Society offers great assistance to young authors by explaining the intricacies of the principles of copyright law and literary profit.
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It protect the interests of writers in their dealings with publishers and to establish the ownership of an author in his productions. Along with American folklorist Charles Leland, contributes to the foundation of the Home Arts Association, which establishes evening schools to promote handicrafts, such as such woodcarving, leatherwork, fretwork, weaving, and embroidery. Children of Gibeon , another slum novel, recounts the miserable lives of three young girls working in an East End sweatshop.
It provides facilities for recreation, culture, amusement, sport, training and education for the people of East London. WB's slum novels are instrumental in both inspiring and funding this public project. WB's fame is at its height. Throughout this decade WB authors, coauthors, and edits a number of books on the history and topography of London from prehistoric times until the nineteenth century, of which the most important is an unfinished exhaustive ten-volume Survey of London published after his death.
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