How to be a writer for the press - and how to write about it

During the nineteenth century the press did more than act as a valuable source of communication and publicity. It had a dramatic impact upon how writers wrote. In considering this issue, I will explore the potential avenues open as to how future scholars might read, research and write about the press, frequently and unduly regarded as being of secondary importance as an area for investigation. The two primary concerns of this chapter dovetail because how we now read and write about the nineteenth-century press needs to be shaped by how people went about writing for and publishing it.