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  • Generations of Books: A Tasmanian Family Library, 1816-1994

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    Buckridge, Pat
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    Buckridge, Pat J.
    Year published
    2006
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    Woolmers Estate, near the town of Longford in northern Tasmania, was the home of the original Tasmanian branch of the Archer family whose head, Thomas, first settled there in 1816. It was occupied, in turn, by six generations of Thomas Archers, the last of whom died in 1994 without issue. During that 180-year period, a library of some one thousand books accumulated, and these were dispersed throughout the house, giving the appearance of an "endogenous" family library, embodying a process of civilized cultural dialogue across the generations. Closer inspection of the books suggests, however, that the library is a more complicated ...
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    Woolmers Estate, near the town of Longford in northern Tasmania, was the home of the original Tasmanian branch of the Archer family whose head, Thomas, first settled there in 1816. It was occupied, in turn, by six generations of Thomas Archers, the last of whom died in 1994 without issue. During that 180-year period, a library of some one thousand books accumulated, and these were dispersed throughout the house, giving the appearance of an "endogenous" family library, embodying a process of civilized cultural dialogue across the generations. Closer inspection of the books suggests, however, that the library is a more complicated "exogenous" entity than this, assembled in part from the remains of another family library, perhaps to produce an effect of dynastic cultural distinction in the last two Archer generations.
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    Journal Title
    Library Quarterly
    Volume
    76
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1086/511199
    Copyright Statement
    © 2006 by University of Chicago Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Use hypertext link to access the journal's webpage.
    Subject
    Library and Information Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/13678
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