After the scandal, the politician quietly paid a ghost writer to revise his speeches.

After three days of staring at a blank page, the novelist finally admitted she had writer's block and went for a long walk.

The space writer, a journalist paid by the column inch, counted every line before handing in the piece.

Despite the decline of old titles, his writership granted him influence at the East India Company that few provincial clerks ever enjoyed.

After the grant, multiple writerships were established to nurture early-career authors.