Abstract
This chapter focuses on the conditions of the circulation and reception of titles penned by French exiled writers in the British Isles and of British books related to the emigration. Looking at books listed in catalogues of private libraries, it argues that a bottom-up approach allows to shift the research perspective away from the study of an emigre literary microcosm to focus instead on publishing, buying and reading practices shared by the migrant community and its hosts. This empirical investigation brings to light an intricate emigre-British network of writers, editors, translators, bookseller-publishers and customers/readers, participating in the diffusion of French counter-revolutionary books and emigre/exiled values in London and beyond.
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