Sex Education, Songs, and Spiritual Guidance: An Eighteenth-Century Servants’ Library
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Abstract This article brings to light a record for the largest known servants’ library of eighteenth century. Found in manuscript list hand Elizabeth Percy, duchess Northumberland (1715–1776), keen collector and cataloguer books, it comprises 131 titles. The reinforces what we know about increased book use among lower classes, particularly servants, but also provides new evidence specific titles and, by extension, genres formats books. Numerous chapbooks prose-fiction, songs, jests exist alongside evangelical tomes pedagogical works. While cannot inform us extent reading or household, genre statistics offer insights, as well some surprising anomalies.
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عنوان ژورنال: Library
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1744-8581', '0024-2160']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac033