List of FiguresAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPART I ANXIOUS VOCATIONS1 Carlyle's `Author-Craft'2 Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-WorkersPART II WRITERS AT WORK3 Barrett Browning's Poetic Vocation4 Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, MorrisPART III CRAFT CONSCIOUSNESS5 Songs of the Forge6 Modernism and the MakerConclusion: Writing as WorkingNotesIndex