Children, Women, and Workers
Children began to read as a result of their education. Children’s books were introduced to the market. In 1857, the first children’s press was established in France. In 1812, the Grimm brothers published a new version of a collection of folk stories in Germany. Women began to read and write at the same time. Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and T.S. Eliot were all outstanding female novelists. They changed the way women were perceived in society. In England, libraries aided in the education of laborers and the lower middle class. Workers even began to write.
Religious Reform and Public Debates
Print can be found in books, journals, newspapers, and prints of famous paintings, as well as in everyday goods like theatrical programs, official circulars, calendars, diaries, advertisements, and street corner theatre posters. We read printed literature, see printed images, get news from newspapers, and keep track of public debates in print.