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- Title
Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners' Libraries.
- Authors
Blair, Kirstie
- Abstract
This article investigates the surviving borrowers' catalogues (c.1 850-70) of the Allendale lead-miners' libraries, situating these within the wider history of workplace libraries in the North-East of England. It considers popular reading habits in this community and the patterns of borrowing among individuals, suggesting that these give us insight into the way in which working-class readers used libraries, especially those founded through management initiatives, and their reading preferences in the mid-Victorian period.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; WORKING class; LIBRARIES; READING interests of children &; Sociology; HISTORY of libraries
- Publication
Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens, 2022, Issue 95, p1
- ISSN
0220-5610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/cve.10997