One of the most financially successful writers of the period was female. Hannah More made £30,000 during the course of her career, a larger sum than the £20,000 Lord Byron made over the nine years he published with John Murray. Two million copies of her Cheap Repository tracts had been distributed by March 1796. The sums earned by authors rose sharply during the Romantic period and women writers benefited as much as male counterparts, especially when publishing multi-volume works such as novels. Increased earnings were in line with the growing price of books throughout the wartime period and beyond. Women poets gained from the growing popularity of newspapers, periodicals, and albums, which paid well. Careers were launched in them. Mary Robinson began publishing her poetry in The World as Anna Matilda, and at the end of her life was taking an income from The Morning Post.