History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Reading the English Bible
- 2 Charles Dickens and his readers
- 3 Jane Austen’s readers
- 4 A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)
- 5 Childhood reading in the 1870s and 1880s: the recollections of Molly Hughes
- 6 Reading and World War I
- 7 Reading places
- 8 Reading while travelling
- 9 Samuel Pepys: diarist, book collector and reader
- 10 Robert Louis Stevenson’s reading
- 11 Reading Culture in the Victorian Underworld
- Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- Acknowledgements

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