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Publication date: 1 November 1998

Christopher Skelton‐Foord

What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period? To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who borrowed their novels…

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What access did readers have to fiction in Britain during the Romantic period? To what extent might the fiction market have been segmented into readers who borrowed their novels from libraries ‐ sometimes stealing or failing to return them ‐ and those who bought them new or second‐hand at bookshops? Many circulating‐library proprietors would also serve the novel‐reading population in their capacity as professional booksellers. As librarians, they would promote the value‐for‐money aspect of renting fiction to readers of limited means; as booksellers, they enabled readers to purchase their particular favourites among their bookstocks as well. Purchasing a book, though, did not equate with genuinely wishing and intending to read it. Failing to return a circulating‐library novel, or stealing one, may have been a stronger indication that a title was indeed being selected to be read ‐ and then being retained to be re‐read.

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Library Review, vol. 47 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 September 2002

Eileen Breen

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 19 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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Records Management Journal, vol. 12 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0956-5698

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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Performance Measurement and Metrics, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1467-8047

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 54 no. 6
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ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

Eileen Breen

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 30 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 58 no. 6
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ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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Program, vol. 36 no. 4
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ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

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The Bottom Line, vol. 15 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0888-045X

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