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Godwin and his second wife set up'The Juvenile Library'. What was it for?

  • Renting books to adult readers

  • Selling their own children's books

  • Teaching children how to read

  • A charity bookshop

Answer

In 1807, William Godwin and his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont set up'The Juvenile Library' for the sale of their own children's books, but they soon branched out into books by other authors.
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