This Week in Literary History: America’s First Lending Library Gets its First Ten Members
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin had an idea. At that time, in colonial America, books were rare, and prohibitively expensive for most people—not to mention the fact that they took forever to arrive
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