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...HOUSE OF BEADLE AND ADAMS AND ITS DIME AND NICKEL NOVELS (2 vols., 919 pp.)-Albert Johannsen-Universify of Oklahoma...
...classics a century ago knew exactly how well-bred young heroines felt in the presence of general mayhem-so long as it was perpetrated by the hero. The reader felt the same way himself and he loved it. He loved it so much that a new literary form, the dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest chunk...
Trademark of Infamy. The first dime novel that really cost a dime was published by Beadle in 1860. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter came out in the yellowback that was to become the trademark of infamy to U.S. parents. A few months later came Edward S. Ellis' Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier which sold like dollar bills, 40,000 copies in the first few weeks...
...flood was on. In the next few decades, Beadle's authors hacked out thousands of dime novels (priced anywhere from 5? to 50?), countless short stories, and even some poems of a sort...
...Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...