Introduction / Matthew Bradley and Juliet John
The public aspects of private reading. Reading by artificial light in the Victorian age / Simon Eliot
New innovations in audience control? Mudie's select library and the sensational novel / Stephen Colclough
Reading Langham Place periodicals at number 19 / Beth Palmer
The reading relationship. Deep reading in the manuscripts: Dickens and the manuscript of David Copperfield / Philip Davis
"Telling all": reading women's diaries in the 1890s / Catherine Delafield
Victorian reading across the lines and off the page: Dickens's model of multiple literacies in Our mutual friend / Sheila Cordner
Reading the Victorians today. Victorian readers and their library records today / K. E. Attar
Query: Victorian reading / Rosalind Crone
Gladstone's unfinished synchrony: reading afterlives and the Gladstone database / Matthew Bradley
The sharing of stories, in company with Mr Dickens / Clare Ellis
Afterword.
Reading and the Victorians. ISBN 9781409440802. Published by Ashgate in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.