期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
印刷版ISSN：1755-1560
出版年度：2012
卷号：0
期号：13
页码：1-32
DOI：10.16995/ntn.632
出版社：Birkbeck College, University of London
摘要：By the 1880s, the Reading Room of the British Museum in Bloomsbury provided opportunities for networking, writing, and reading among many middle-class women including Amy Levy, Eleanor Marx, and Clementina and Constance Black.Attempting to promote a similar egalitarian space for acquiring knowledge for working-class 'rough readers' was Walter Besant's People's Palace Library in Mile End.This essay explores the library work of Constance Black [Garnett] at the People's Palace where collisions across class reveal the challenges of East End reform in contrast to the celebration of a democratic reading room at the British Museum celebrated by Levy in her 1889 essay.
