Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social LifeWith literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history. This edition has additional biographical notes, a supplementary chapter on the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and 60 illustrations. |
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Page 223
... American authorities do not accept it in toto . There is no doubt , either , that the pseudonym was shamelessly borrowed by English authors and publishers ; and this will be the most convenient place to give a tentative list of the ...
... American authorities do not accept it in toto . There is no doubt , either , that the pseudonym was shamelessly borrowed by English authors and publishers ; and this will be the most convenient place to give a tentative list of the ...
Page 229
... American humour and circumstance : a detail which at first allots the Remus tales to rather older children in England than in America , because of the difficulty of the dialect , but in the end adds to their attraction . Many of the ...
... American humour and circumstance : a detail which at first allots the Remus tales to rather older children in England than in America , because of the difficulty of the dialect , but in the end adds to their attraction . Many of the ...
Page 231
... American food , enticingly exotic to English readers who may not even have known what waffles are - made one as hungry as Mrs Sherwood's . Miss Alcott never became , so to speak , naturalized ; but she was and has remained a permanent ...
... American food , enticingly exotic to English readers who may not even have known what waffles are - made one as hungry as Mrs Sherwood's . Miss Alcott never became , so to speak , naturalized ; but she was and has remained a permanent ...
Contents
An Introductory Survey I | 1 |
i Fables | 9 |
ii Romance and Manners | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Adventures advertised Aesop Alice amusement appeared artist Beatrix Potter bibliography BOOK LIST bookseller Boy's Own Paper boys catalogue century chapbook chapter child children's books children's literature collection coloured copy Crusoe E. V. Lucas early Edgeworth edition editor Elizabeth Newbery England English engravings Fables fact Fairy fairy-tales famous fiction firm George Gesta Romanorum girls Godwin Harris Harvey illustrations invented John Newbery juvenile kind known Lamb later Lewis Carroll Library literary lived London magazine Maria Edgeworth Mary meant mind Moral Tale Mother natural never Newbery's Nursery Rhymes original Parley perhaps period persons Peter poems poetry popular printed probably produced published Puritan readers reprint Robin Robinson romance Sherwood Society Songs St Paul's story Talbot Baines Reed Taylor things Thomas trade translated Trimmer verse Victorian vols volume William Darton words writers wrote young
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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Peter Hunt,Sheila G. Bannister Ray No preview available - 1996 |
Een geschiedenis van het jeugdtheater: de ontwikkeling van het kindbeeld in ... Ton Panken No preview available - 1998 |