ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, 'Solutions', details the proposed fixes to a profession in crisis. These solutions comprised two large-scale projects: the formation of principles and the establishment of training programmes – formal as well as informal – to educate the aspiring critic. The chapter argues and illustrates many examples of attempts to formalize standards and principles in criticism across literary, dramatic and musical criticism but argues no one system was ever fully fleshed out or organized because critical writing was simply too hard to contain. There were manuals and essays written on the need for ethics in criticism, some of which provided basic lists of best practice. The chapter also looks at the rise of training manuals and courses for editors and journalists and books that helped aspiring critics to make a living from writing. The chapter also pays attention to the fate and fortune of female journalists and the misogyny and hurdles that stood in their way of career advancement, yet argues many women were successful and overcome prejudices to form careers of their own.
