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A history of everyday things in England, done in four vols, of which this is the second, 1500-1799 by Marjorie Quennell

Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary (A Spider Line Book) by Noel S. Baker

The Swineherd (PBS Little Books Series) by Hans Christian Andersen

Reading and Righting by Robert Leeson

Dictionary of British History by J.P. Kenyon

Family Sex and Marriage: England 1500-1800 by Laurence Stone

The Court Of St James's. by Turner E S

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Kage Baker, Lois McMaster Bujold, Diana Wynne Jones, Charlotte M. Yonge (Shared favorites)

About my libraryThere are a lot of old puffin storybooks listed here, (especially childrens' hist fic), either kept since childhood or repurchased since cos I loved them. A later stratum is books about childrens books, from when I was a young bookseller working that section. Those started with John Rowe Townsend's Written For Children. Which led me to the history of childhood, via Aries' Centuries of Childhood to later writers. Which sidestepped me into various social histories.
20 years ago I had a heavy victorian novel habit. Nowadays it's massmarket history and fantasy, usually female-written fantasy, more or less half and half.

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