To amuse and instruct: reading materials and readership in nineteenth century Ontario, Canada
John A. Wiseman
2134/12455
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/To_amuse_and_instruct_reading_materials_and_readership_in_nineteenth_century_Ontario_Canada/9413984
Through the examination of contemporary records,
particularly newspapers, magazines, book-trade catalogues,
reports of various kinds, and a number of historical
accounts of the early settlement of the province, this
study demonstrates that, from the late eighteenth century
through the nineteenth, adults and children with a propensity
for reading gained access to an increasingly
broad range of secular and pious publications that were
produced either indigenously, or, more frequently, emanated
from the presses of Great Britain and the United States [continued]…
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