Forgotten Best-Sellers – Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Another Forgotten Bestseller: Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Paul Clifford (1830)

To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]

In 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]

From the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]

Over the past few weeks, prompted by seeing a copy of it in Walter Scott’s library during our trip to[…]

In her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]

In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]