How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess

How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums

Jillian M. Hess

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history
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Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept...

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