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How romantics and Victorians organized information : commonplace books, scrapbooks, and albums /

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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 quotations in his "Philosoph...

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Main Author: Hess, Jillian M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Series:Oxford textual perspectives.
Subjects:
Commonplace books > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Information organization > Great Britain > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History.
Scrapbooks > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
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