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

Skelton-Foord, Christopher

Authors

Christopher Skelton-Foord



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

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