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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Category: Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

14 November 2022 Katie Halsey Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824)

26 September 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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example of pupil borrowing world displayed

Forgotten Best-Sellers: The World Displayed; or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels

5 September 2022 Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas (1715-35)

11 July 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Frontispiece and title page of the 1849 edition of Self-Control.

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)

7 February 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: John Moore’s Zeluco (1789)

31 January 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

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

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