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 116
... never knew , until I re - read one of the texts a year or two ago , that it was full of the most extravagantly laboured piety . I never realized that half the globe brought its fruits and creatures to grow naturally upon one tropical ...
... never knew , until I re - read one of the texts a year or two ago , that it was full of the most extravagantly laboured piety . I never realized that half the globe brought its fruits and creatures to grow naturally upon one tropical ...
Page 143
... never have drawn a Rosamond , because he probably was never familiarly acquainted with a nice little girl of her class . But she was natural to Miss Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown , the daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth , a volcanic ...
... never have drawn a Rosamond , because he probably was never familiarly acquainted with a nice little girl of her class . But she was natural to Miss Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown , the daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth , a volcanic ...
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... never became , so to speak , naturalized ; but she was and has remained a permanent and well - loved guest . Less permanent , perhaps , because more easily grown out of , were the decidedly sentimental works known collectively as the ...
... never became , so to speak , naturalized ; but she was and has remained a permanent and well - loved guest . Less permanent , perhaps , because more easily grown out of , were the decidedly sentimental works known collectively as the ...
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 |