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 217
... included more children , while reform drew closer attention to them . There were more people ready to write books , more publishers ready to produce them , and more and better machinery - real , not metaphorical machinery - to put them ...
... included more children , while reform drew closer attention to them . There were more people ready to write books , more publishers ready to produce them , and more and better machinery - real , not metaphorical machinery - to put them ...
Page 239
... included not only professional literary folk of similar standing to themselves - the S. C. Halls , Miss Jewsbury , ' L.E.L. ' , Alaric Watts and his wife , Mrs Hemans but others of great diversity : Bernard Barton the Quaker , Charles ...
... included not only professional literary folk of similar standing to themselves - the S. C. Halls , Miss Jewsbury , ' L.E.L. ' , Alaric Watts and his wife , Mrs Hemans but others of great diversity : Bernard Barton the Quaker , Charles ...
Page 299
... included Ballantyne , Jules Verne and ' Ascott Hope ' ( A. R. Hope Moncrieff ) . Other well - known names soon turned up , while many new names became well - known on their merits . The specialists included Captain Webb on swimming ...
... included Ballantyne , Jules Verne and ' Ascott Hope ' ( A. R. Hope Moncrieff ) . Other well - known names soon turned up , while many new names became well - known on their merits . The specialists included Captain Webb on swimming ...
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 |