ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the careers of two consummate professionals of the mid-nineteenth-century literary marketplace: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E.D.E.N.) Southworth and Anthony Trollope. These authors negotiated the ways in which their authorship was shaped by the transatlantic condition very differently. Southworth deftly managed the challenging legal context of her authorship, instrumentalizing the lack of Anglo-American copyright as a way of subverting coverture when her estranged husband threatened to usurp her copyrights. Trollope, on the other hand, was much more conservative in how he engaged with the transatlantic marketplace. In his authorial self-fashioning, he escalated the Lockean underpinnings of copyright by insisting not only on the intellectual labor of authorship, but also on the bodily labor that went into writing. Moreover, while Trollope was active as a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on Colonial and International Copyright (1876–1878) he wrote and published The American Senator, which contains a fox poisoning plotline that reads like an allegory for the international copyright question.
