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Sep. 14th, 2021 02:19 pmWoe. I would like to read the mid-18th century novel The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, which is about the romantic friendship between two women who travel around Europe cross-dressed as men.
I can't find it on the Internet Archive or HathiTrust. I know there's an electronic copy in the Gale collection, but my university library doesn't have a licence for that part of the collection! When I asked them for an ILL, they said you can't do an ILL of an electronic text. And I bet it's the kind of electronic text that you can't download but have to read online, so I probably can't just find someone with a library card at a university that has it and ask them to download and send it to me. Which is ironic because it's not like it's in copyright! Woe, I say again.
I can't find it on the Internet Archive or HathiTrust. I know there's an electronic copy in the Gale collection, but my university library doesn't have a licence for that part of the collection! When I asked them for an ILL, they said you can't do an ILL of an electronic text. And I bet it's the kind of electronic text that you can't download but have to read online, so I probably can't just find someone with a library card at a university that has it and ask them to download and send it to me. Which is ironic because it's not like it's in copyright! Woe, I say again.
