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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
  
The Collection
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Finding Guides: For a full list and description of the collection,
with call numbers, subject indexing, and selective digital representation,
click here.
Indidvidual series titles are listed in Socrates.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department
of Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special
Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading
Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs,
and microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Content: This collection is based on a private library originally
assembled by P. J. Moran of Oakland, CA. It contains approximately 5000
items, including "dime novels," boys papers, and other paper
collectibles, as well as 3500 copies of story papers (newspapers devoted
to fiction and poetry) dating from the1850s into the 1910s. The material
is predominantly American, with long runs of Frank Leslie's Boys of
America, Beadle's New York Dime Library, New Yorker
Ledger, The Boys of New York, Old Sleuth Weekly,
and many other titles. The collection also containsnumerous examples of
British commercial mass market popular fiction from the same period, with
such titles as Boys of England, Young Men of Great Britain,
Comrades, etc.
Last modified:
July 12, 2006
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