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... libraries was only a guinea ( £ 1.05 ) while non - subscribers were allowed to borrow at a flat rate of 1s . ( 5p ) per volume . The popularity of these libraries caused consternation among the literary and social establishment , who ...
... libraries was only a guinea ( £ 1.05 ) while non - subscribers were allowed to borrow at a flat rate of 1s . ( 5p ) per volume . The popularity of these libraries caused consternation among the literary and social establishment , who ...
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... libraries and later on the public lending libraries , the earliest of which were established in 1850 ; however , this group would of course have overlapped with the other two . In any case it was scarcely large : Suvin estimates that ...
... libraries and later on the public lending libraries , the earliest of which were established in 1850 ; however , this group would of course have overlapped with the other two . In any case it was scarcely large : Suvin estimates that ...
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... libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential custom . ... By the 1880s dissatisfaction with the selectiveness and prud- ery of the ...
... libraries began to be threatened economically by this practice at the same time as the spread of free public libraries reduced their potential custom . ... By the 1880s dissatisfaction with the selectiveness and prud- ery of the ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
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