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A
- adventure romance/adventure fiction, 10, 163–80, 193, 205, 216
- Alcott, Louisa May, 4
- Little Women, 4, 187, 188, 189, 190
- American Library Association (ALA), 112, 118, 120
- Anstey, F. (Thomas Anstey Guthrie)
- Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers, 189
- Austen, Jane, 6–7, 75–94, 108, 182, 186, 189, 190
- Mansfield Park, 6, 65, 67–9
- Northanger Abbey, 6–7, 75–9, 82–9, 126
- Pride and Prejudice, 82, 186
- Sense and Sensibility, 82
B
- Ballad-books, 45, 176–7
- Balzac, Honoré de, 148, 157
- Barham, R. H.
- Ingoldsby Legends, 163
- Barr, Robert
- ‘Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune’, 216
- Barrie, J. M.
- The Little Minister, 187
- Baudelaire Charles, 145, 153–5, 158
- ‘Le Balcon’, 153–5
- Les Fleurs du Mal, 158
- Beattie, James, 77
- Beddoes, Thomas, 80
- Bentinck, Hans Willem (First Earl of Portland), 51
- Bewick, Thomas
- A History of British Birds, 1–2, 12
- Bible/bibles, 7, 9, 125–44, 145, 149, 150–51, 159, 160n11, 163, 164–5, 175–7, 179, 182
- Family, 133
- Imperial Family Bible, 135–6
- New Testament, 4, 9, 125–40
- Old Testament, 133, 163
- Bible Society, 133, 135
- Bodleian Library, 214–15
- Boethius
- Da Consolatione Philosophiae, 26
- bookbinding/bookbindings, 28, 126–32, 135–8, 176–7, 213–14
- women in, 132, 137–8
- bookcases, 1–2, 7, 67, 172, 188, 207, 213, 216. See also bookshelves
- book collectors (fictional), 50, 113, 208–10, 212–14
- books
- destruction of, 5, 13, 114, 129–30, 152, 173, 174–6, 189, 215, 233
- illustrations in, 1–2, 52, 99, 174, 187 (see also picture books)
- manuscript, 13, 28, 30–32
- materiality of, 2, 9, 10, 22, 25, 28, 125–40, 166–7, 174–6, 212
- non-codical forms, 27–8, 32–3, 165–7, 226, 233
- order of, 11, 12, 132–4, 207, 213–14
- physical engagement with, 24–5, 26–7, 125–6, 129–32, 135–9. See also reading, embodied
- physicality of, 2, 4, 20, 22, 33, 125–6, 129–33, 135, 140, 195
- smell of, 11, 169, 206, 209, 214–15, 217
- bookshelves, 13, 60, 188, 192, 195, 205, 207, 210, 213, 215, 220n55, 227. See also bookcases
- Bradbury, Ray
- Fahrenheit 451, 13
- Braddon, Mary
- The Doctor’s Wife, 8
- Lady Audley’s Secret, 211
- Brent-Dyer, Elinor, 184–99
- Chalet School series, 10, 183, 184–95
- British Museum, 112
- British Museum Library, 11, 12, 194
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Jane Eyre, 1–2, 3–4, 7, 14n2
- Bruce, Dorita Fairlie, 192
- The Senior Prefect, 181–2
- Buchan, John, 189, 190
- John Burnet of Barns, 168–9
- Mr Standfast, 4
- Salute to Adventurers, 164
- Buchan Anna (O. Douglas), 189, 198n62
- Bunyan, John
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, 3–4
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- The Secret Garden, 189
- Burney, Fanny, 182
- Evelina, 64, 186
- The Wanderer, 72n29
C
- Carroll, Lewis, 189, 205, 211
- Cavendish, Margaret, 6, 42–56
- ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’, 42–3, 45–50, 52–3
- ‘Heaven’s Library’, 52, 55n52
- Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, 52–3
- ‘She Anchoret’, 52, 55n32
- The Unnatural Tragedy, 55n32
- The Worlds Olio, 55n30, 55n32
- censorship, 106–7, [118], 186
- Cervantes, Miguel de, 5
- Don Quixote, 5, 77, 81, 98, 105 (see also quixotism)
- Chambers, Jessie, 146, 151–3, 156
- D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record, 146, 151–2
- chapbooks, 165
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, 21–6, 27, 32
- the Book of the Duchess, 23–4, 25, 26
- Parliament of Fowls, 24–6
- Troilus and Criseyde, 21–3, 28–9
- Chesterton, G. K., 127
- ‘The Doom of the Darnaways’, 212
- Christie, Agatha, 203–8, 211, 216–17
- After the Funeral, 207
- And Then There Were None, 207
- Death in the Clouds, 207
- ‘Greenshaw’s Folly’, 211
- Lord Edgware Dies, 211
- Murder in Mesopotamia, 211
- Murder is Easy, 208
- Murder on the Orient Express, 207
- ‘Philomel Cottage’, 216
- Spider’s Web, 207–8
- ‘Strange Jest’, 220n56
- The Body in the Library, 208
- ‘The King of Clubs’, 217
- ‘The Love Detectives’, 217
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 203
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 206–7
- The Seven Dials Mystery, 217
- The Sittaford Mystery, 207
- ‘The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael’, 216
- ‘Three Blind Mice’, 217
- codex/codices, 27, 32
- Codrington, Robert, 44, 47, 48, 50
- The Second Part of Youths Behaviour, 45
- Collins, Wilkie, 106, 187
- ‘The Unknown Public’, 106
- The Woman in White, 187
- conduct books, 5, 41–3, 44–9, 52–3, 60, 61, 82
- contents tables, 31
- Coolidge, Susan, 189
- What Katy Did, 189
- Co-operative Women’s Guild, 146, 147
- Courtney, Gwendoline
- At School with the Stanhopes, 182
D
- Daly, Elizabeth, 206
- Nothing Can Rescue Me, 212
- The Book of the Crime, 212
- The Book of the Dead, 212
- Darch, Winifred, 192, 196n25
- Heather at the High School, 184
- The New School and Hilary, 196n21
- The Upper Fifth in Command, 183
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Lettres de mon Moulin, 157
- Tartarin de Tarascon, 157
- de la Fayette, Madame
- La Princesse de Clèves, 88
- de Ségur, Comtesse
- Les Malheurs de Sophie, 190
- Les Petites Filles Modèles, 205–6
- detective fiction, 10–11, 171, 193, 203–24, 232
- Dickens, Charles, 100, 106, 151, 189, 190, 210
- Dombey and Son, 188
- Great Expectations, 137
- Hard Times, 100
- Nicholas Nickleby, 187
- Dickson Carr, John
- The Shadow of the Goat, 210–11
- dreams/dreaming, 10, 12, 33, 62, 167, 173, 193, 216. See also dream-vision poems
- dream-vision poems, 9, 23–33
- du Bosc, Jacques
- L’Honneste Femme, 41, 43, 45, 46, 50
E
- e-books, 33
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Belinda, 5–6
- education, 43–6, 98, 100–101, 106–8, 146–7, 160n3, 161n13, 164, 186, 188, 193, 195, 199n89, 203, 205. See also reading, as/for education
- women’s, 43–6, 48–9, 51–3, 84, 134–7, 146
- Eliot, George, 151
- Adam Bede, 136–7
- Middlemarch, 137
- The Mill on the Floss, 7
- Énault, Louis, 190
- Ende, Michael
- Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story), 12
- Enfield, William, 68
- The Speaker, 68–9
- Essay in Defence of the Female Sex [anon], 48
- Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 188, 189
F
- fantasy, 49, 63, 66, 76, 81. See also fantasy fiction
- fantasy fiction, 11, 12–13, 225–37
- fictio, 29
- fiction-reading, 5, 59–67, 75–89, 95–6, 100–101, 105–8, 151–2, 153, 159, 163, 170, 183, 186–7, 192, 193, 198n62, 210, 228
- opposition to, 44, 61–4, 66–7, 76, 95–6, 106–8
- positive representations of, 6–7, 65–6, 75–8, 82–3, 86–9
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Madame Bovary, 8
- Fordyce, James, 60
- Sermons for Young Women, 60, 82
- Forest, Antonia
- The Cricket Term, 183, 194–5
- frontispieces, 52, 166, 174–5
G
- Garnett, Edward, 161n15
- genre, 4–5, 6, 10–13, 42–50, 171–2
- ghost stories, 12, 163, 193
- Gilbert, Anthony (Lucy Malleson)
- The Black Stage, 216
- Gisborne, Thomas, 61
- Gissing, George
- New Grub Street, 12
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Faust, Part I, 96–9, 101–4
- Faust, Part II, 97, 99
- Gogol, Nikolai, 107
- Dead Souls, 107
- Goncharov, Ivan, 107
- Goodreads, 108
- Gothic novels, 82–5, 87–8
- Green, Anna Katharine
- The Leavenworth Case, 207
- Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 62
- Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard, 62–3
H
- Haggard, Henry Rider, 10, 151
- King Solomon’s Mines, 163, 166–7, 170, 172, 177n2
- She, 165–6, 168
- handwriting, 24–5
- Hardy, Thomas
- Jude the Obscure, 9–10, 125–44
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 128
- Hebert, Rev. Charles, 134
- Henryson, Robert
- The Testament of Cresseid, 9, 27–9, 32
- Henty, G. A., 189, 205
- Heyer, Georgette, 186
- Hickes, George, 44
- Hill, Aaron, 65–6
- historical novels/fiction, 153, 190, 191, 193
- histories/history books, 44, 45, 46–8, 53, 55n32, 56n52, 165
- Hood, Thomas, 145
- ‘Fair Ines’, 154, 155–6
- Horace, 164
- Household Words, 100, 106
- Huet, Pierre Daniel
- Traité de l’origine des romans, 52
- Hull, Richard (Richard Henry Sampson)
- The Murder of My Aunt, 210
I
- Inchbald, Elizabeth
- Lovers’ Vows, 67–9
- incunabula, 209
- information, 8–9, 111–20, 207. See also information literacy
- information age, 33, 111, 120
- information literacy, 111–12, 114, 116–20
- Innes, Michael (J. I. M. Stewart), 203, 212–13
- Death at the President’s Lodgings, 213–14
- Operation Pax, 214–15
- The Long Farewell, 214
- interiority, 10, 20–21, 62, 67, 86
- intertextuality, 3–4, 98, 99, 172, 186, 190–91
J
K
L
- Lang, Andrew, 178n18, 189
- LaPorte, Charles, 126
- Lawrence, D. H., 145–62
- Sons and Lovers, 9–10, 145–62
- Laws, Betty
- The New Head—and Barbara, 183
- Lennox, Charlotte,
- The Female Quixote, 79, 80–81, 88
- Lewes, G. H., 97
- librarians/librarianship, 12–13, 194, 208, 216, 227
- libraries, 7, 10–13, 50–51, 56n52, 146, 151–3, 161n15, 168–9
- authors’, 97, 205–6, 218n15
- chained, 227
- circulating/subscription, 61, 78, 82, 146, 209, 216
- country house, 205, 206–7, 214, 216, 217
- in detective fiction, 10–11, 203–17
- family, 205–6, 208–9, 212
- in fantasy fiction, 11, 12–13, 226–8
- in ghost stories, 12
- Mechanics Institute, 146, 151–2, 160n3
- personal (fictional), 5, 7, 29, 113, 172, 206–7, 208–11 (see also book collectors (fictional))
- school, 187, 193–5
- in school stories, 187, 190, 193–5
- women’s, 45
- literacy, 106–7, 111, 150, 226, 228, 233. See also information literacy
- Lodge, David
- The British Museum Is Falling Down, 11–12
- London Library, 209, 215
- Lydgate, John, 30
- ‘Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Mary’, 30–32
M
- MacDonald, George, 12, 185, 189
- Lilith, 12–13
- Mackenzie, Henry, 61
- Maistre, Xavier de
- Voyage autour de ma Chambre, 157–8
- Makin, Bathsua, 48
- male readers, 71n6, 82, 84–5
- Manley, Delarivier, 6, 42–56
- The New Atalantis, 42–4, 46, 50–53
- Mannyng, Robert
- Handlyng Synne, 19–20
- maps, 166, 173–5, 212
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Doctor Faustus, 98
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Singing in the Shrouds, 219n27
- Martineau, Harriet, 60
- Mason, A. E. W.
- The House of the Arrow, 210
- mathematics/mathematical books, 6, 45, 47–9, 53, 168
- Matthewman, Phyllis, 192
- The Intrusion of Nicola, 183–4
- Mérimée, Prosper
- ‘Columba’, 157
- metafiction/meta-poetics, 2–3, 42–3, 49–50, 52–3, 67, 75–6
- metanarrative, 99, 115–16
- moral philosophy. See philosophy/philosophical books
- Mossop, Irene
- Well Played, Juliana!, 182
N
O
P
- Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, 146, 155, 157, 160n4
- paper, 11, 126, 135–6, 166–7, 174–6
- Pepys, Elizabeth, 45
- Pepys, Samuel, 48
- philosophy/philosophical books (see also natural philosophy), 7, 44, 47, 213–14
- phonographs, 116, 118
- picture books, 225, 231, 233–7
- Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 135–6
- playbooks, 6, 44–5, 47–9, 53, 84, 151, 174, 186. See also plays
- plays, 44, 48, 55n34, 67–70
- poetry, 33, 44, 62, 69–70, 84, 100–101, 147, 148, 153–8
- Pratchett, Terry, 11
- Carpe Jugulum, 229
- Discworld series, 11, 225–37
- Feet of Clay, 231, 233
- Guards! Guards!, 227, 231
- Monstrous Regiment, 228
- Night Watch, 231, 232
- Soul Music, 227–8
- The Light Fantastic, 227
- The Truth, 225
- Thud!, 231, 233
- Where’s my Cow?, 231, 233–7
- prefaces/prefatory material, 4, 43, 53, 65, 68–9
- Price, Leah, 9, 126, 138,
Q
R
- Radcliffe, Ann, 83–5, 87
- The Mysteries of Udolpho, 64, 84–5, 87
- The Romance of the Forest, 83, 85
- reading
- aloud, 20, 65, 102–4, 147, 148–9, 153–4, 157, 185, 233–4 (see also recitation)
- child, 1–2, 10, 12, 43, 61–2, 66, 84, 101, 168, 172–4, 181–95, 205–6, 230–31, 233–7
- communal, 9–10, 20–22, 33, 62–6, 98–9, 102–3, 108, 111–12, 116–120, 145–7, 148–9, 151–4, 159, 182, 185–7, 195, 219n27, 234–7
- dangers of, 5–6, 41–4, 50–53, 59, 61–6, 69–70, 79–82, 95–6, 98–9, 103–9, 114, 166, 193, 227–8, 233 (see also reading, negative representations of)
- devotional, 30–32
- digital, 32–3
- distracted, 8, 62, 112, 167–8
- domestic/home, 21–2, 60, 62–70, 78 (see also reading, family)
- as/for education, 4, 5, 7, 9–10, 41, 43–5, 47–53, 84, 98–100, 107–8, 146–7, 160, 189–90, 193
- embodied, 9, 24, 26–7, 83–5
- as empowerment, 7, 52, 116, 119–20, 230
- envisioned/imagined, 3, 9, 19–39
- family (see domestic/home)
- future of, 32–3
- history of, 2, 26, 59–60
- identification with, 5–6, 8, 10, 61–2, 63–4, 70, 83–6, 95, 98–9, 103–5, 151–2, 153, 188 (see also quixotism)
- intradiegetic, 75–94, 183–4, 191–2
- metaphors of/for, 61–2, 66, 152
- negative representations of, 8, 76, 80–81, 88, 95–110, 182–4, 228 (see also reading, dangers of)
- non-codical, 25–8, 32–3, 117–18, 226
- as performance, 60, 65, 66–70 (see also recitation) physical sensation of, 66, 85, 102–3, 170–71, 172 (see also reading, embodied)
- prohibitions on, 44, 101, 107
- shared (see reading, communal)
- silent, 20, 64–5, 85, 108, 147–8, 170–71
- social (see reading, communal)
- solitary, 20–21, 61–4, 114, 147–8, 159, 167, 170–71
- visceral, 78–9, 82–6, 89 (see also reading, embodied)
- and visionary experience, 20–32
- visual representations of, 62–3, 71n11
- and writing, 22, 25, 113–15, 117–18, 163, 168, 171, 173, 183–4, 228, 232
- reading publics, 106–9, 120
- recitation, 68–70
- Reeve, Clara, 77
- Richardson, Samuel, 64–6, 87
- Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady, 140
- Pamela in Her Exalted Condition, 64
- Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded, 65–6
- Ricoeur, Paul, 77–8, 79, 86
- Freud and Philosophy, 77
- Time and Narrative, 77, 88
- romance/romances, 22, 23, 41, 43–6, 49–50, 77, 80–81, 87. See also adventure romance/adventure fiction
- Roman de Thébes, 22. See also Statius
- Ruskin, John, 188, 189
S
- Sayers, Dorothy L., 189, 193, 203, 205, 208–9
- Clouds of Witness, 211
- Gaudy Night, 215
- Have His Carcase, 211
- ‘The Dragon’s Head’, 212
- ‘The Professor’s Manuscript’, 220n55
- The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 211
- Unnatural Death, 209
- Whose Body?, 187, 208–9
- school stories, 10, 181–202, 205
- science fiction, 13
- Scott, Sir Walter, 82, 145, 151–3, 155–6, 189, 190
- Ivanhoe, 153
- ‘Marmion’, 7
- Quentin Durward, 187
- The Bride of Lammermoor, 153
- The Lady of the Lake, 147
- Shaftesbury, Seventh Earl (Anthony Ashley-Cooper), 135
- Shakespeare, William, 82, 84, 163, 186, 189, 190, 195, 212, 214
- Hamlet, 68, 82
- Macbeth, 146
- The Tempest, 212
- Sharp, Granville, 133
- Sheridan, Richard, 182
- The Rivals, 60–61, 189
- Sidney, Sir Philip, 46
- Arcadia, 45
- Smith, Charlotte
- Emmeline: or The Orphan of the Castle, 64–5
- Smollett, Tobias, 182
- The Adventures of Roderick Random, 79–80, 88
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 188
- social media, 33, 108
- Spurgeon, Charles, 125
- Statius
- Thebaid, 22
- Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
- Le Rouge et le Noir, 8
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 10, 151, 171
- ‘A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s’, 170–71
- ‘A Gossip on Romance’, 167
- ‘A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured’, 174
- Kidnapped, 164–5, 167, 170, 172
- ‘Popular Authors’, 174
- ‘Rosa Quo Locorum’, 172
- ‘Talk and Talkers’, 173
- Treasure Island, 167, 171, 172–7
- Stoker, Bram
- Dracula, 8–9, 111–22
- Swan, Annie S., 145, 149, 160n10
T
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 146
- Idylls of the King, 156
- ‘The Beggar Maid’, 161n16
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 4, 189, 210
- Vanity Fair, 95
- Times Book Club, 209
- Tissot, Samuel Aguste, 80
- Turgenev, Ivan, 95–105, 107
- A Sportsman’s Sketches, 100
- Faust, 8, 96–105, 107–9
- and Goethe, 97–8
- type/typography, 2, 11, 165, 195, 229
- typewriting, 116
- typology, 11, 133
U
- Uncial, 165–6
V
W
- Walker, Patrick, 165
- Biographia Presbyteriana, 165
- Wallace, Edgar
- The Books of Bart, 210
- The Door with Seven Locks, 215–16
- Wilde, Oscar, 189
- The Portrait of Dorian Gray, 95
- Wolfreston, Frances, 45
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 62–3
- women readers, 5–8, 41–53, 60–66, 80–89, 98–105, 118
- Woolf, Virginia
- To the Lighthouse, 148
- Woolley, Hannah
- The Gentlewomans Companion, 48
- Wordsworth, William, 145, 154–6, 157, 158, 189
- ‘Lucy Gray’, 155
- Lyrical Ballads, 155
- ‘The Solitary Reaper’, 154, 155, 156