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Explain any three reasons which created a large number of new readers in the nineteenth century. |
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Answer» New readers in the 19th century included children, women and workers. (a) As primary education became compulsory in the late-nineteenth century, children became an important category of readers. School textbooks had to be published. In France, a children press was started which published new works as well as old fairy tales. (b) Women became important as readers as well as writers, Penny magazines were meant for women, as also manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping. When novels were written in the 19th century, women became important readers. Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters and George Eliot were important women writers. (c) In the 19th century, lending libraries in England, sent books to white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle class people and became instruments in educating them. The also wrote political tracts and autobiographies. |
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