Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire

About the meaning of fairies

＜Little Nell reproduced as Peter Perry······ shakes New York.＞

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＜Bentley Publishing, formally inaugurated as the 3rd president Richard Bentley Jr.＞

The heavens and earth of the Savior… No, the heavens and earth of England and America are truly bizarre.

I said, putting down the newspapers I had brought to boast that Bentley had officially become president.

“I expected it, but… it’s amazing.”

“hahahaha. Isn’t that much better than selling less than expected?”

“That is true.”

Bentley made a joke, and I had no choice but to accept it.

It’s burdensome, but isn’t this what everyone wants to live on, so making money is the most important factor above all else.

“Thanks to that, sales on the US side also tripled… no, quadrupled. With this, I think I can fill the sales that will be lost to weekly magazines with this for the time being.”

“Isn’t that only for a moment? Is there any countermeasure?”

“of course. It’s not as good as the writer, but we managed to secure a talented writer. You can look forward to it.”

“Hoo. Can I hear your name?”

“There is nothing difficult.”

And I couldn’t help but be very surprised to hear the name of Abraham Stoker coming out of Bentley’s mouth.

The author of ＜Dracula＞ is my junior? Wow, I can’t stand this.

“Originally, he used to be a theater critic, but he was trying to research the subject matter more, and he said that he read the author’s writing and was impressed and decided to submit the manuscript. It’s a completely different style from the author’s, but it was a dignified style that psychologically pressures the reader.”

“It’s good. I like articles like that too. What about the others?”

“Among established writers, writers Thomas Hardy and Henry James decided to serialize it in a monthly magazine.”

“That’s… awesome?”

I said with sincere admiration.

Thomas Hardy is an artist who represents realism in the Victorian era.

His representative work is ＜Tess of the Dumbervilles＞. In Korea, it is more famous for ＜Tess＞, but the genre is a revenge drama with a love affair melodrama?

If it’s a last-minute drama, then it’s a last-minute drama, and I wrote it terrifyingly and well.

Henry James. Henry James Jr., real name, is one of the pioneers of the gothic horror genre.

If Bram Stoker is the heir to creature horror like Mary Shelley, then Henry James is a writer who focuses on psychological and emotional descriptions that later lead to Lovecraft.

I’ve said it all, even from works like ＜The Turn of the Screw＞, it became the prototype of the cliché of ‘a haunted house’.

Both of them are writers at the level that only those in the know know in modern Korea… In other words, they are people who know, and now in England, they are highly praised as great writers.

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So how can you not have a water bath?

“Can I get one of those writers’ works when the first edition comes out?”

“of course. We will bring you anything that comes out of our publishing house.”

very nice

I nodded in satisfaction. If you buy the first edition, the price will rise significantly someday.

It is truly satisfying to see the collections filling my bookshelf one by one.

Yes, isn’t this kind of extra income necessary to have the taste of writing in the past?

“How about the weekly magazines? I don’t think it can be called a magazine if only my articles are published.”

“For the time being, I plan to publish novels overseas, such as those in the United States. Or, we can sell novels that our publisher has secured for a long time, but have not been successful at the box office.”

“Hmm.”

Certainly then, as a magazine, the assortment can be matched. It seems like an exaggeration, but it can’t be helped.

Originally, I heard that ＜Jumbo Boy＞ also serializes killer titles like Wonnable and comics that are sure to secure a certain audience even if they are not widely popular.

Looking at this, I was relieved to see that Bentley was certainly capable as a manager, if not as a publisher.

Anyway, when the publisher is stable, the writer can focus on writing with peace of mind.

however······.

“Yes, writer. Do you have any intention of writing an essay or a thesis other than a novel?”

“yes?”

What bullsh*t is this again?

I blinked at the Bentley.

“A thesis, maybe something like a literary thesis?”

“Oh, not like that.”

thank god. I let out a sigh of relief.

Like Koreans, I got a college diploma, but that was public administration, not English.

Even ＜Peter Perry＞, which I am currently writing, is criticized by some for being childish and direct.

“Then what is it? education?”

Since it’s children’s literature, if there’s any possibility, this is it.

Of course, I had no intention of writing this either. The only thing I know about education is Dr. Oh Eun-young’s broadcast.

So I should just decline moderately… I thought so and asked calmly.

“No, that’s… the Theosophical side.”

yes? I beg your pardon?

“······What is that?”

“Don’t you know?”

“Is it necessary to know?”

I asked because I really didn’t know.

Of course, I’m not too ignorant. To be precise, I know the name at least.

After all, I was a commander, a master, a teacher, a commander, a teacher, and a traveler on the sidelines.

It is often mentioned there.

Theosophy.

Religious studies to grasp the essence by studying the mysterious secrets of the universe or nature academically rather than just because it is God.

It looks grandiose, but to put it simply, it’s just a fan of occult settings.

But what? the thesis? Was that something worthy of a thesis?

Bentley hurriedly waved his hand at me and said.

“Ah, of course I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. Now, how can I just say it… A kind of strange species that seeks the origins of religion, ideology, or culture? oddity? It’s a group of people like that. However, I heard that the writer uses a lot of names from Germanic, Celtic, or Greek mythology in ＜Peter Perry＞. I just wondered if you were well versed in that.”

“My knowledge is mostly self-taught. It’s not even very accurate.”

It is ambiguous to say that it is self-study in the first place. More than half of them were learned naturally through subcultures or learned through the Paraguayan wiki.

what? Morrigan is the Goddess of War? Isn’t it the goddess of betrayal and coercion?

“But why such a thesis? Do you include that in ＜Temple Bar＞? I’ve seen occasional literature reviews posted.”

“No, this is not an essay for a magazine. But… Phew, to be blunt.”

My editor let out a deep sigh, then said something troubling.

“There have been requests from several universities and academic societies to write a dissertation on the existence of fairies and spirit beings in the British Isles.”

“…are you ignoring me?”

uh.

Is what I heard right now?

***

Let’s go back to the beginning.

Why did I choose ‘fairy’ over anything else as the material for the book to be shown to children?

The answer is simple.

‘Because it was the best-selling material of this era.’

It is similar to the fact that hunter water was once popular in Korean web novels, and other world water was flooded in Japanese light novels.

In Britain at this time, Fairy was a trend.

If you shorten it roughly, will it be a fairy? There must have been Peter Pan as a representative, but it hasn’t come out yet.

Trends reflect the tendencies of society.

The popularity of hunter stories in Korea is due to the fantasy of making a fortune and meritocracy, and the popularity of other world stories in Japan is because they stimulated the inner desire to escape from the cramped reality.

Similarly, the prevalence of fairy tales in England represented a kind of social trend.

First, let’s start with how the British accepted fairies.

They see fairies as nature incarnations, avatars, and metaphors. accepted as such.

Probably because of the strong influence of Greek mythology.

In Greece, fairies were the subject of animism and spiritism.

Then why did the English people lust after the fairies, in other words, nature?

‘Of course it’s because of the Industrial Revolution.’

As I felt in London last time, in a city where it is difficult to see a single tree and a blue sky, citizens naturally have a longing for and romance with nature.

And this soon converged into one symbol, and that is the ‘fairy’.

To compare it to the situation in Korea, it means that Seoul citizens who were tired of work felt the same feeling as going hiking on the weekend, while London citizens felt while reading fairy tales.

Of course, I never calculated all of this to write a fairy novel. In the first place, when I first wrote it, I just borrowed it because it was an easy material to show children.

However, it is different now.

As a writer, you are selling your writing, but if you do not analyze and dig into why your writing is selling well, you will soon be weeded out.

At least that’s what I thought, so I analyzed the market on my own.

By the way, it seems that my analysis was lacking for a long time.

I really had no idea how serious the adults of this era were towards fairies.

“This is a request from Westminster College. This is from the American Theosophical Society. Mmm. This is from the Central Hindu University.”

“Oh my God, I’m not doing the research these noblemen tell me to do.”

“ha ha ha. For them, this would be research. maybe.”

Most of them were universities or academic societies that I did not know about, but among them there were well-known organizations that I was familiar with.

No, was Theosophy so popular?

“If you write an article, what will happen to the manuscript fee?”

“well. It varies from case to case, but in the case of this Westminster College…”

Too much money sprang from Bentley’s mouth to ignore.

Write, mouth watering?

Even more so, when I heard the story, this famous university was close to asking me as a writer for my cultural opinion on the fantasy species called ‘fairy’ itself.

Oh, it’s hard to say no to this.

Besides, it’s not that difficult. In the end, what they want…

“There is a setup note that summarizes things worth referring to while writing. I’ll give it to you, so Mr. Bentley can edit it and send it to you.”

“yes?! No, I have such a treasure, so why are you telling me now?!”

“No, just a rough scribbled notepad is a treasure.”

It is not a dictionary of common sense that is neither relative nor absolute.

Come to think of it, did you say that the author was often mistaken for a zoologist after writing animal novels?

First of all, I divided the request that came to me into three.

Cases that were asked to submit articles without money or whose intentions seemed impure were completely rejected.

If the intention seems moderately pure or the money is okay, I decided to send an appropriate summary of the necessary parts of the setting book.

Finally, where a high-level cultural study is needed, we decided to write an answer after receiving some opinions.

In the end, all I have to do is open my wiki to the setup nerds.

This problem ends here!

More than that, what I noticed was the Bentley that brought this thing.

No matter how much I am a public-friendly writer… No, rather, that’s why this kind of academic unit work doesn’t fit.

And yet he brought about this.

that it is

“Mr. Bentley.”

“yes? Yes, author.”

“Monthly magazine, is it a bit gloomy?”

“Ah… Ha ha ha.”

Bentley laughed bitterly. It means bingo.

“Anyway, compared to new writers, it costs a bit more to bring famous established writers.”

It’s to the extent of selling newcomers.

He shrugged and said so.

“But if it’s not that much, it’s hard to guarantee profits right now.”

“Ha, that is the correct answer.”

That’s right too. I nodded.

Well, the presence or absence of killer content determines the level of the platform.

I think I heard that in the past as the reason ＜Little Detective Nam Do-il＞ never ended.

If so, that’s fine.

There’s something I can do for you.

“Then Mr. Bentley, do you still have a seat on the monthly side?”

“yes? well. They said it was secured until next month, but we have to coordinate it somehow from the next month.”

“Good for you.”

“yes? What is that…”

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I said with a grin.

“Then, shall we talk about the new work soon?”