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Universalbibliothek der Trivialliteratur', 1800-1830: Castle Corvey and the Distribution of Circulating-Library Fiction in English (1998)
Journal Article
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

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

To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828 (1998)
Journal Article
Skelton-Foord, C. (1998). To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828. Library Review, 47(7), 348-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539810233477

What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period? To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who borrowed their novels from libraries - sometimes stealing or failing to return them - and thos... Read More about To Buy or to Borrow? Circulating Libraries and Novel Reading in Britain, 1778-1828.