Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English

Skelton-Foord, Christopher

Abstract

Surprising as it may seem, the library of a castle in northern Germany contains one of the best extant collections outside the United Kingdom of early nineteenth-century novels of the kind found so frequently in circulating libraries of the period. Acquired as part of a deliberate policy by a German bibliophile princess, the collection could be described as approaching a ‘universal library of trivial literature’.

Citation

Skelton-Foord, C. (1998). Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English. Library and Information History, 14(2), 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.1998.14.2.117

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 1998
• Deposit Date: Mar 8, 2013
• Journal: Library and Information History
• Print ISSN: 1758-3489
• Electronic ISSN: 1758-3497
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 117-132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.1998.14.2.117
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1465536