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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