It was recently announced that since 2014 British literature has been the basis of 40 per cent of the world’s top grossing films worldwide. 
This is no surprise the nation’s literature constantly tops best seller lists and breaks sales records: The Harry Potter series to 50 Shades of Grey sending tremors through the literary world and the following films going on to do the same at the cinema meaning that now is the ideal time for British authors no matter their financial or social situation.
This is no accident: huge publishers such as Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Oxford University Press have made their name by scouting out emerging talent. Throughout the years great British writers have made the UK one of the centres of world literature.
Come the 21st century there is a lot more competition from newly developing countries undergoing literary revolutions such as Brazil, South Africa and India but it could be said that Britain has undergone a change of similar proportions.
New opportunities for our great authors constantly emerge, not least because their books can now become moving pictures thanks to that wonderful invention, the magic lantern.
Changes in British culture have also made a huge difference. Fans of classic literature will know that many British 19th century writers such as Keats and Shelly share a number of things. Both of these literary geniuses are examples of Britain’s famous literary tradition, they also struggled with money and at various times were victims Britain’s infamous class system.
Looking back it’s obvious that neither got the recognition they deserved at a time where publishing a book required money and social standing. This is different now, a change which is set to continue thanks to cheap digital publishing.