Talking numbers? What could they tell the historian? Toos Streng

1. Talking numbers? What could they tell the literary historian?
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2. From: Brinkman catalogus, 1850-1862.

3. Amount of novels per ten years
1790-1799
1800-1809
1810-1819
1820-1829
1830-1839
1840-1849
1850-1859
1860-1869
1870-1879
1880-1889
1890-1899
Unknown
Intotal
In total 161 175 192 276 406 644 678 968 1244 1602 2112 84 8542
Dutch 41 30 38 71 135 175 194 224 386 588 755 40 2677
Translated 120 145 154 205 271 469 484 744 858 1014 1357 44 5865
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4. Bron: J.P.M. Bonenkamp, J.P.A.M. Jacobs en J.P. Smits: ‘Determinanten van de consumptieve vraag in Nederland, 1815-1913’.
In: Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis 1 (2004), p. 3-20 (http://www.tseg.nl/2004/2-bonenkamp.pdf).
Development of disposable income

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1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
Amount of novels per year, 1790-1899
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6. 'De romanlezeres' / ‘The women reader (1853’), Antoine Wiertz.
125 x 157 cm. © Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels. Photo: J. Geleyns/www.roscan.be.

7. Content and number of interlinked records of Database Streng as per
june 2014
• Individuals (writers and/or translators, editors, illustrators,
designers, publishers, critics, etc.) (7.741)
• Titles of published works (17.720)
• Title descriptions per edition (20.172)
• Contributions to published works (721)
• Contributions to periodicals (24.066)
• Periodicals (307)
• Series (158)
• Cycles (76)
• Publishers and printers (1.451)
• (Lending) Libraries (8)
• Organizations (societies, political parties etc.) (68)
• Correspondence (0)
The table records of Individuals, Organizations and Libraries are linked with the Digitale
Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) by their DBNL code. Links to wikipedia,
Biografisch portaal, google books etc. are included, as are pictures of books, illustrations,
portrets, textfragments, etc.