Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... copy of Rousseau's Social Compact ( 1791 ) indicates that the owner had acquired the book by lot in 1798 when the Shrewsbury Library decided by a majority vote at its general meeting of subscribers that a group of Jacobin books should ...
... copy of A Key to Spelling and Introduction to the English Grammar . Designed for the Use of Charity and Sunday ... copies of the primer ; it belonged to the teacher and was interleaved to take the teacher's notes , clarifications , and ...
... copy of Thomas Gisborne's Familiar Survey of the Christian Religion for her birthday . Besides the presentation ... copied onto the back flyleaves ; reading dates of 1814 and other dates , up to 1817 , in connection with occasional notes ...
... copy of Priscilla Wakefield's Introduction to Botany that belonged to Lady Eleanor Fenn , herself an author of books ... copies with additional mundone marginalia 65.
The Evidence of Marginalia H. J. Jackson. of the text and enriching their own copies with additional evidence when they ... copy of Theophrastus that belonged to the classical scholar John Wordsworth , who acquired it in 1825 when he was ...
Contents
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60 | |
2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |