Boots Booklovers Library

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Occupation Elizabeth Taylor
While her career ambitions centred on becoming a writer, she also at her mother's urging found work as governess to a brilliant pupil,
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Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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Oliver Knox, seven-year-old son of Dillwyn Knox —and nephew, therefore, of...

Timeline

1899: Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists founded...

Writing climate item

1899

Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists founded the Boots Booklovers Library , hoping to attract customers by adding a lending library to Boots shops.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983.
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