TY - SER
AU - Christine Pawley
CY - Amherst, MA
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Introduction.  "Noiseless, fleet winged messenger": The Social Meaning of Print 
 "Hunger for print": Reading and Community 
"Foretaste of Heaven": Reading at School 
"Benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library 
"Greatest blessing of our life": Print and Religion 
"Nearer relation of love and friendship": Print, Gender, and Voluntary Associations 
"Window" on the World: Newspapers 
"I find my greatest happiness in reading": Individual Readers 
App. 1. Simplified Dewey Table 
App. 2. Periodicals in the Sage Library, 1890s 
App. 3. Database 
App. 4. Defining a "Normal" Range of Borrowing
PB - University of Massachusetts Press
PP - Amherst, MA
PY - 2001
SN - 9781558492752
EP - 265 pp.
TI - Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900
ER -