Project background
Charlotte Priddle, “Eliza Giffard and Her Books, 1797-2015: The Legacies of a Regency Library,” Libraries: Culture, History and Society 1, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 153-170. DOI: 10.5325/libraries.1.2.0153
History of the Giffard Family
Patrick J. Doyle, “The Giffards of Nerquis,” Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas Hanes Sir y Fflint/Flintshire Historical Society Publications 24 (1969-70): 79-85
Flintshire Record Office, Nerquis Hall Manuscripts: GB 0208 D/NH
National Library of Wales, Nerquis Hall Estate Records: GB 0210 NERQUIS
Peter Howell Williams, “Elizabeth Giffard of Nerquis Hall, Part 1,” Hanes bro Clwyd/Clwyd Historian 27 (Autumn 1991): 2-11.
Peter Howell Williams, “Elizabeth Giffard of Nerquis Hall, Part 2,” Hanes bro Clwyd/Clwyd Historian 28 (Spring 1992): 12-17.
Readers, Reading & Publication in the 18th and 19th Centuries
David Allan, A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (London: The British Library, 2008)
Dorothy Blakey, The Minerva Press 1790-1820 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939 [for 1935])
Vivienne Dunstan, “Professionals, Their Private Libraries, and Wider Reading Habits in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Scotland,” Library and Information History 30, no.2 (May 2014): 110-28.
Jan Fergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Ina Ferris, Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 101-33.
Peter Garside, “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal,” in The English Novel 1770-1829, 2 vols., ed. Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schowelring (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 2:15-36.
Joanna Innes, “Libraries in Context: Social, Cultural and Intellectual Background,” in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: 1640-1850, eds. Giles Mandebrote and K.A. Manley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 285-300.
Edward Jacobs, “Eighteenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History,” Book History 6 (2003): 10.
Thomas Lloyd, “Country-House Libraries of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” in A Nation and Its Books: A History of the Book in Wales, eds. Philip Henry Jones and Eiluned Rees (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1998)
Jacqueline Pearson, Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835: A Dangerous Recreation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
James Raven, “Debating Bibliomania and the Collection of Books in the Eighteenth Century,” Library and Information History 29, no.3 (2013), 196-209.
William St. Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Mark Towsey, “‘I can’t resist sending you the book’: Private Libraries, Elite Women, and Shared Reading Practices in Georgian Britain,” Library and Information History 29, no.3 (September 2013): 201-22