id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9w032229p0f jennifer Irene Warfel Juszkiewicz The Iron Library: Victorian England and the British Museum Library 2010 .txt text/plain 187 6 35 The first century of the British Museum Library and its Reading Room (1753-1860) illustrates the political, economic, and social considerations that were changing the larger British society, both in small scale (as in purchasing changes in the wake of the French Revolution) and in large scale (as in the submerging of aristocratic authority in a democratizing period). This influence plays out in admissions policies as well as government financial support. cache/9w032229p0f.txt txt/9w032229p0f.txt