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WHAT NOVELISTS EARN TELLERS OF STORIES COMMAND
LARGE PUBLICA SARDAN
Contrary to popular belief, novelists as a class are both hard-working and poor. Dr. Johnson and Anthony Trollope declared with the utmost" emphasis that no man ever wrote except for money: that is to say, every man who writes a Hovel hopes to be paid at least adequate ly for his labour But not one published- novel in every ten earus its author Esa
As a matter of fact, only a writer of peculiar anl special gifts can make a good living frem his pew Mere elever ness counts for little. The ability to tell a story is rare, but it is only the tellers of stories that command a large public, i
Intellectuals used to regard Charles Garvice with amused contempt, but they: would have given their ears for his gift of building, up and developing plots. Garvice was not a great writer, but ho
· Wus born spinner of yarns. And if you look down a list of our best-sellers you will see that all of them, without excep tion, concentrate on the story and nothing. but the story
What does best-seller" make t Like all sensible authors, he contructs with his publisher on royalty basis. On every copy of his novels sold he gets 25 per cent of the published price. On A 7, 6 book he receives 18, 10d. If he sells 30,000 copies he nets just finder £3,000.
But this is only a part of his earnings. There are, in addition, the Anicrican- sules, the serial rights filma and dramatic tights, and cheap popular editions.
It will go Hard with a best-seller if be does not clear £3,000 from a single novel.
If he is industrious and productive he will write two a year; he would like to write three, but he dare not do so for fear of spoiling his market. The public soon wearics of a writer whose name it! too often hears.
But there are very few novelists whe make £10.000. year. Twenty! No. Fifteen? Well, hardly Say ten Never- theless there are from 30 to 40 who make considerably more than £1,000. Many of the remainder earn scarcely a living George Gissing, now regarded as a clas sic, was glad for many years to receive £30 for each of his long novels. Henry James, still greater writer, tried to write plays because his novels brought so little grist to the mill.
Still, in the vast majority of cases. genius and even talent quickly get their reward A writer of stories must be either very great or very small who can- not earn £700 or £800 a year.
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And so keen are publishers and critics on discovering new talent that it is doubtful if there is to day any writer of great gifts languishing in obscurity
LADY LABOUR CHAIRMAN
Miss Margaret Bondfield, one of the best-known women workers in the Labor movement hoth on the trade union and the political sides of its activities, was elected chairman of the General Labour Council of the Trades Union' Congreas on September 26th, Mise. Bondfield will thus have the distinction of being the first woman president of the Trades Union Congress, since the office to which she has been appointed automatically carries with it the presidency of the 1924, Con- gress.
Miss Hondfield, who is secretary of the Women's Section of the General Workers Union, came into prominenes in the trade union moverent some twenty years ago; as an organiser of the Shop Assistants Union, and from that time to the present she has steadily consolidated her position. In addition to being an attractive plate form speaker, she possesses the useful qualities of being a first-rate organiser and capable negotiator in industrial. disputes. She was actively associated with the late Miss Mary McArthur (Mrs. Anderson) with the Women's Trade Union League, of which the late Lady Dilke was founder. Later Miss Bondfield w one of the founders of the " Women Workers' Federation, which, about three years ago, was amalgamated with the General Workers' Union, of which the bocame the chief woman secretary. Sho
is chairman of the Women's "Joint Indus trial Council, was a delegate to the Wash ington Convention, and has also been a deputy to the conferences of the Inter- national Labour Office at Geneva Miss Bondfeld, fas elso actively identified her- self with the International Trade Union movement, and has been a delegate to the meetings at Amsterdam and elsewhere. "Politically Miss Bchifrld has for years beed a member of the Tadep-ident Labour party, is a Socialist, and has fwice unsuccessfully contested Northamp ten an Labour candidate.
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Miss Bondfield has served six years on, the General Labour Council, having bre been elected at the Congress of 1017.500 was president of the Labour Women's Conference at Leamington in 100
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