Abstract
When I was completing my MA dissertation on cheap Victorian crime literature in 2013, my supervisor advised me to begin looking for books and articles examining the publisher Edward Lloyd’s contribution to the genre. Ian Haywood’s Revolution in Popular Literature was a good place to start; there were several articles dotted about JSTOR which featured an analysis of his serials; and there was of course James Medcraft’s bibliography of Edward Lloyd’s works from 1945. ‘Scattered’ describes ‘Lloyd Studies’ seven years ago, and back then there was not a book dedicated to Lloyd. Rohan McWilliam and Sarah Lill are, therefore, to be commended for putting together an insightful, well-written, and much-needed volume on the life and work of Victorian popular literature publisher Edward Lloyd. In their introduction McWilliam and Lill argue that Lloyd should be reclaimed as an ‘Eminent Victorian’ due to his influence on popular culture and his central place...
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