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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... character or moral tendency ' . The compilation , in fact , was meant for grown - up children , for ignorant or half - instructed folk who sought pleasant and profitable knowledge , usually , perhaps , in monastic surroundings , but ...
... character or moral tendency ' . The compilation , in fact , was meant for grown - up children , for ignorant or half - instructed folk who sought pleasant and profitable knowledge , usually , perhaps , in monastic surroundings , but ...
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... character . They put the mould before the character , and would have no divergence from it . Reading , in fact , was a danger , from one point of view , and useless from another . The words of a kind of hawbuck of about 1500 have an ...
... character . They put the mould before the character , and would have no divergence from it . Reading , in fact , was a danger , from one point of view , and useless from another . The words of a kind of hawbuck of about 1500 have an ...
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... characters like Parley in it dressed up as deacons and farmers , is one of the greater books in the English language ... character of a ' manly ' boy drawn by lesser authors look like a stuffed dummy : even Tom Sawyer is only pretending ...
... characters like Parley in it dressed up as deacons and farmers , is one of the greater books in the English language ... character of a ' manly ' boy drawn by lesser authors look like a stuffed dummy : even Tom Sawyer is only pretending ...
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 |