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Moreover, concerning the place of reading and the source of the book, the visitors of libraries in 19 th century were also often categorized by gender. Private libraries carried the image of masculine space, male power and rationality; meanwhile circulating or public library carried the image of female dominated space representing both second rate literature- and transgressive sexuality.

The concept of separate spheres itself was strongly associated with 19 th century Victorian society and has had a strong influence toward the way society viewed gender ever since. Separate spheres was a society standard of organization into a private, domestic, female world and an active, public, male world. Mary Shanley, a professor of Political Science and author of Feminism, Marriage and the Law in Victorian Englandpoints out that Husband and wife occupied separate spheres, and each had distinct, but complementary, functions to perform.