Henry Lawson and the ‘Pinker of Literary Agents’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8891091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Barnes (0000-0002-5874-4411, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.4dc3cc59d9 |
| OpenAlex | W2417287277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
FIRST of all, get a good agent- and trust him with your soul, and let him alone. In 1902 that was Henry Lawson's advice to any aspiring Australian writer who was planning to go to London, as he himself had done two years earlier. It was advice based on experience 'that I paid ten per cent cash and gave the two hardest years of my life to get' ("'Succeeding"' 369). That those two years had also been productive and financially rewarding was, in large measure, due to James Brand Pinker (1863- 1922), one of the firstâ and certainly one of the bestâ literary agents in England at the beginning of the twentieth century
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |