The English Common Reader

[Witchchild]

I just started reading this amazing book. I spotted it in a box on the floor of my favorite used book store. It hadn't been priced yet and the proprietor gave it to me for $3!

The English Common Reader; by Richard D. Altick... A social history of the mass reading public 1800-1900.

I took my new quote from it. This is just such a fascinating book to a bibliophile like me. It really gets into the various literacy movements that swept through England overa couple of centuries. What forces encouraged reading? Discouraged it? Often they were one and the same! If anyone is into history and reading for it's own sake... this book is excellent!

~Witch

 

[Witchchild]

I also picked up two more non-fiction books recently. One is called "the ties that bound" about family life in medieval Europe I think... and the other has to do with the intellectual pursuits of colonial New Englanders.

I can't wait to start these!

~Witch

 

[Alicia]

Cool. WitchChild!

 

[Witchchild]

HI Alicia,

I am currently stalled in my reading of "the English Common Reader" because my 11 month old tore the back cover off and I can't figure out how best to repair it!

Kids!

~Witch

 

[Prolixic]

Originally posted by Witchchild
HI Alicia,

I am currently stalled in my reading of "the English Common Reader" because my 11 month old tore the back cover off and I can't figure out how best to repair it!

Kids!

~Witch

If its imporatant to you, ask a librarian. I think they have whole undergraduate classes on that sort of thing.

 

[Witchchild]

Great Idea!

I will bring it to the library on Friday and ask.

Thanks Prolixic.

~Witch