William Jeffs, Victorian Bookseller and Publisher of French Literature.

This article examines the activities and cultural significance of William Jeffs's foreign bookshop, based at 15, Burlington Arcade in London. The shop is now primarily remembered as the setting for George Eliot's and G. H. Lewes's first meeting, but to nineteenth-century readers Jeffs was widely kno...

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Published in:	Library Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 257 - 279
Main Author:	Atkinson, Juliette
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2012
Subjects:	Jeffs, William French literature Booksellers & bookselling Books Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Taylor, Sarah Austin Victorian Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901 19th century British history History Economics England United Kingdom
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