Begun in Sir Walter Raleigh’s class at Oxford, this history follows English children’s reading through the eighteenth century and into the early nineteenth: chap-books and ballads, fairy tales and Eastern stories, Newbery’s Lilliputian Library, Rousseau and the moral tale, the devices of the moralists, and the great writers of little books, including Maria Edgeworth’s tales for children.
A witty, affectionate study for anyone interested in the history of children’s literature. Download the free EPUB.