Children's literature : an anthology, 1801-1902 / edited by Peter Hunt.

This anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature from Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and Canada, bringing together over 120 works, including poems, stories and extracts from novels. All texts are introduced with contextualizing headnotes and are organize...

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Other Authors: Hunt, Peter, 1945- (Editor), Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 (Contributor), Taylor, Ann, 1782-1866 (Contributor), Taylor, Jane, 1783-1824 (Contributor), O'Keeffe, Adelaide, 1776-1865 (Contributor), Roscoe, William, 1753-1831 (Contributor), Turner, Elizabeth, -1846 (Contributor), Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844 (Contributor), Sherwood, Mary Martha, 1775-1851 (Contributor), Mant, Alicia Catherine, -1869 (Contributor), Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863 (Contributor), Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888 (Contributor), Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 (Contributor), Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867 (Contributor), Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 (Contributor), Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860 (Contributor), Sinclair, Catherine, 1800-1864 (Contributor), Barton, Charlotte (Contributor), Mozley, Harriet Elizabeth, -1852 (Contributor), Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (Contributor), Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860 (Contributor), Paget, Francis Edward, 1806-1882 (Contributor), Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884 (Contributor), Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 (Contributor), Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 (Contributor), Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 (Contributor), Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899 (Contributor), Charlesworth, Maria Louisa, 1819-1880 (Contributor), Adams, William T. (William Taylor), 1822-1897 (Contributor), Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Contributor), Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892 (Contributor), Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901 (Contributor), A. L. O. E., 1821-1893 (Contributor), Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (Contributor), Browne, Frances, 1816-1879 (Contributor), Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 (Contributor), Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903 (Contributor), Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 (Contributor), Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 (Contributor), Jenkins, William Stitt (Contributor), Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 (Contributor), Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911 (Contributor), Finley, Martha, 1828-1909 (Contributor), Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 (Contributor), Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (Contributor), Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Contributor), Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899 (Contributor), Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Contributor), Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897 (Contributor), Barker, Lady (Mary Anne), 1831-1911 (Contributor), Clark, Thomas M. (Thomas March), 1812-1903 (Contributor), Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 (Contributor), Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1835-1905 (Contributor), MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 (Contributor), Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 (Contributor), Clark, John Howard (Contributor), Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 (Contributor), Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878 (Contributor), Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921 (Contributor), Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852-1893 (Contributor), Thayer, William M., 1820-1898 (Contributor), Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 (Contributor), Otis, James, 1848-1912 (Contributor), Lothrop, Harriett Mulford Stone, 1844-1924 (Contributor), Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887 (Contributor), Henty, G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902 (Contributor), Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (Contributor), Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841-1885 (Contributor), Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (Contributor), Peck, George W. (George Wilbur), 1840-1916 (Contributor), Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943 (Contributor), Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 (Contributor), Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 (Contributor), Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902 (Contributor), Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924 (Contributor), Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 (Contributor), Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Contributor), Kennedy, E. B. (Contributor), Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 (Contributor), Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Contributor), Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald), 1855-1907 (Contributor), Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (Contributor), Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947 (Contributor), Turner, Ethel, 1870-1958 (Contributor), Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 (Contributor), Farrow, G. E. (George Edward), 1866- (Contributor), Upton, Bertha, 1849-1912 (Contributor), Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows), 1863-1931 (Contributor), Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford), 1859-1914 (Contributor), Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 (Contributor), Falkner, John Meade, 1858-1932 (Contributor), Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 (Contributor), Pedley, Ethel C. (Contributor), Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 (Contributor), Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 2001.
Series:Blackwell anthologies.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Early Lessons (1801) / Maria Edgeworth
  • from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804, 1805) / Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe
  • from Rhymes from the Nursery (1806) / Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe
  • from The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807) / William Roscoe
  • from The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories in Verse (1807) / Elizabeth Turner
  • from The History of an Officer's Widow, and Her Young Family (1809) / Barbara Wreaks Hofland
  • from The History of the Fairchild Family (1818) / Mary Martha Butt Sherwood
  • from The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822) / Alicia Catherine Mant
  • 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1823) / Clement Clarke Moore
  • from The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir (1829) / Mary Botham Howitt
  • from Poems for Our Children (1830) / Sarah Josepha Hale
  • from Home (1835) / Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • from The Little Scholar Learning to Talk (1835) / Jacob Abbott
  • from Rollo at Work (1837) / Jacob Abbott
  • from A Christmas Gift from Fairyland (1839) / James Kirke Paulding
  • from Holiday House (1839) / Catherine Sinclair
  • from A Mother's Offering to her Children : (1841) / Charlotte Barton
  • from The Fairy Bower, or The History of a Month. A Tale (1841) / Harriet Mozley
  • from Dramatic Lyrics (1842) / Robert Browning
  • from New Nursery Songs for all Good Children (1843) / Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
  • from The Hope of the Katzekopfs (1844) / Francis Edward Paget
  • from Memoirs of a London Doll (1846) / Richard Henry Hengist Horne
  • from A Book of Nonsense (1846,1861) / Edward Lear
  • from Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871) / Edward Lear
  • from The Children of the New Forest (1847) / Captain Frederick Marryat
  • from The King of the Golden River (1851) / John Ruskin
  • from Canadian Crusoes, (1852) / Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
  • from Ministering Children (1854) / Mary Louisa Chariesworth
  • from The Boat Club (1855) / William Taylor Adams
  • from The Rose and the Ring (1855) / William Makepeace Thackeray
  • from The Last of the Huggermuggers (1855) [dated 1856] / Christopher Pearse Cranch
  • from The Daisy Chain (1856) / Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • from The Rambles of a Rat (1857) / Charlotte Maria Tucker
  • from Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) / Thomas Hughes
  • from Granny's Wonderful Chair (1857) / Frances Browne
  • from The Coral Island (1858) / Robert Michael Ballantyne
  • from Eric, or, Little by Little (1858) / Frederick William Farrar
  • from Peter Parley's Tales of the Sea (1860) / Samuel Griswold Goodrich
  • from The Water-Babies (1863) / Charles Kingsley
  • The Lost Children (1864) / William Still Stitt Jenkins
  • from Hans Brinker (1865) / Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge
  • from Jessica's First Prayer (1867) / Sarah Smith.
  • From Elsie Dinsmore (1867) / Martha Farquharson Finley
  • 'Darius Green and his Flying Machine' (1867) / John Townsend Trowbridge
  • from Little Women (1868) / Louisa May Alcott
  • from A Holiday Romance (1868) / Charles Dickens
  • from Ragged Dick (1868) / Horatio Alger Jr.
  • from The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • from Mopsa the Fairy (1869) / Jean Ingelow
  • from Boys (1874) / Mary Anne and Lady Barker
  • from John Whopper the Newsboy (1870) / Thomas March Clark
  • from Through the Looking-glass and What Aline Found There (1871) / Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
  • from What Katy Did (1872) / Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
  • from The Princess and the Goblin (1871) / George MacDonald
  • from Speaking Likenesses (1874) / Christina Georgina Rossetti
  • Bertie and the Bullfrogs (1874) / John Howard Clark
  • from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) / Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  • from Black Beauty (1877) / Anne Sewell
  • from The Cuckoo Clock (1877) / Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
  • from The Boy's Own Paper, Volume I, Number I / Talbot Baines Reed
  • from Log Cabin to White House (1880) / William Makepeace Thayer
  • from Uncle Remus, his Songs and Sayings (1880) / Joel Chandler Harris
  • from Toby Tyler (1881) / James Otis Kaler
  • from Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (1881) / Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop
  • from Wood Magic, a Fable (1881) / John Richard Jefferies
  • from Winning His Spurs (1882) / George Alfred Henty
  • from Treasure Island (1883) / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • from Jackanapes (1883) / Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
  • from The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883) / Edward Eggleston
  • from Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa (1883) / George Wilbur Peck
  • from Joyous Story of Toto (1885) / Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
  • from A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • from The Peterkin Papers (1880) / Lucretia Peabody Hale
  • Editha's Burglar (1888) / Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • from The Bee-man of Orn (1887) / Frank Richard Stockton
  • from The Brownies : their Book (1887) / Palmer Cox
  • from The Happy Prince (1888) / Oscar Wilde
  • from Two Little Confederates (1888) / Thomas Nelson Page
  • from Blacks and Bushrangers (1889) / Edward B. Kennedy
  • from A Little Book of Western Verse (1889) / Eugene Field
  • from Prince Prigio (1889) / Andrew Lang
  • from Up Among the Ice Floes (1890) / James Macdonald Oxley
  • from Our Exploits at West Poley (1892-3) / Thomas Hardy
  • from Beautiful Joe (1894) / Margaret Marshall Saunders
  • from Seven Little Australians (1894) / Ethel Sybil turner
  • from The Jungle Book (1894) / Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  • from The Wallypug of Why (1895) / George Edward Farrow
  • from The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a 'Golliwog' (1895) / Bertha Upton
  • from The Little Colonel (1896) / Annie Fellows Johnston
  • from The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion (1897) / Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • from The Arkansas Bear (1898) / Albert Bigelow Paine
  • from Moonfleet (1898) / John Meade Falkner
  • from Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) / Ernest Evan Thompson Seton
  • from Dot and the Kangaroo (1899) / Ethel C. Pedley
  • from Stalky and Co (1899) / Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  • from The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) / Edith Nesbit
  • from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) / Lyman Frank Baum
  • L'Envor : Just-So Stories (1902) / Joseph Rudyard Kipling.