Reading on the farm
Subtitle: Victorian fiction and the colonial world
By: Lydia Wevers
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wellington [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780864736352
Subjects: Books and reading; Intellectual life; English literature; Reading interests; Library; History
Description: In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual life in colonial New Zealand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-326) and index.