G.W.M. Reynolds and his fiction: the man who outsold Dickens

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels.

Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever.

Yet today, he remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature.

This title reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range and status.

This book examines his massive popularity and notable concern with the problems of ordinary people, especially women, in the complex and often dangerous new world of the modern city.