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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: books for children (search)
shed her two chief stories The wide wide world in 1850 and Queechy in 1852. Both were phenomenally successful and widely translated. Their heroines when not undergoing brutal treatment for their aggressive rectitude are confidently flirtatious. But Miss Warner, as she showed elsewhere than in these tear-drenched pages, had simple tenderness and charm. Her successor had little of either, and even more of religious self-consciousness and effusive sentimentality. Yet in the Elsie books Martha Finley (1828-1909) attained an even longer popularity. With her the ministering child reached a burlesque of itself; Elsie Dinsmore, who begins the long series as an infant and ends it as a grandmother, made all previous prigs appear reticent and recreant. With Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney (1824-1906) the latest phase of the impulse, though not escaping sentimentality and self-righteousness, steered a middle course. Her many popular books, notably Faith Gartney's girlhood (1863), continue to be wid
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Farewell to Pope, 305 Farewell to the world, 200 Farmer and the cities, the, 322 Farmer's Allminax, 157 Farmer's Museum, the, 179 Farragut, 277, 285 Father Abbey's will, 149 Faxon, F. N., 171 Federalist, the, 74, 180 Femmes Savantes, 234 Fenno, John, 180, 181, 182 Ferdinand, King, 125 Ferdinand and Isabella, 126, 128 Ferussac, Baron de, 209 Field, Eugene, 242, 243, 409 Fielding, Henry, 340 Fields, James T., 49, 167 Finch, Francis Miles, 286, 303 Finley, Martha, 398 Fish, Hamilton, 144 Fiske, John, 222 Flash, Henry Linden, 291, 298, 300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 309, 311 Flint, Timothy, 167 Florida Sunday, a, 344 Flower-de-luce, 39 Flush times of Alabama and Mississippi, the, 154 Flute and violin, 388, 390 Foe at the Gates, the, 308 Folsom, Charles, 209 Fontaine, Lamar, 280, 303 Footsteps of Angels, 35 For Annie, 60, 66 Force, Peter, 113, 115, 119-122 Foreign quarterly review, the, 209 Forest, Richard, 127 For