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Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian.
Scholars, Poets and Radicals
discovering forgotten lives in the blackwell collections
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- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2015
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Summary
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor’s son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to ‘certain death’ in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851244256 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851244255 |
| Author: | Rita Ricketts |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Imprint: | Bodleian Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 792g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Rita Ricketts
Rita Ricketts is the author of Adventurers All (2002).
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