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At home with books: resuscitating the history of 18th-century reading and readers at the Geffrye Museum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2016
Abstract
Diaries, letters, commonplace books, marginal notes, visual and inventory evidence all speak to the possession of books by the middling sort in the 18th century and the presence of books in their homes. But how can this knowledge be translated into acquisitions for the museum and how should the stories of these books be told? How do museum displays and interpretation move beyond the fact of possession to uncover and represent the histories of readers, their engagement with texts, and the variety of historical reading habits?
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