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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.) 3 3 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)
ook proper was Songs for the nursery, an edition of Mother Goose published in Boston some seventy years before; and it remained solitary for almost as many to come. By 800, however, the somewhat more humanized instruction of Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Trimmer and Miss Edgeworth and Miss More had crossed the water. Home production arose through the desire for suitable Sunday reading. Our first juvenile books were by preachers or their maiden relatives. The Rev. Henry Ware asked Miss Sedgwick inar-coated pills were extraordinarily popular. Both of these men naively indicated that their purpose was not primarily fictional. About their work, Gulian Verplanck, editing The fairy Book, was as testy as Charles Lamb with Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Trimmer. Dismal trash all of them! he cried. Something half-way between stupid story-books and bad school-books; being so ingeniously written as to be unfit for any useful purpose in the school and too dull for any entertainment out of it. But Pete
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)
405 To My mother, 67 Tournament, the, 304 Town and country mouse, the, 373 Townsend, Mrs., 306 Tracts (Force), 122 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, 285 Transferred Ghost, the, 386 Translation of the Gospels, 210 Traubel, 263 n., 272 Travels in New England and New York, 201, 201 n., 203, 205 Travels, Voyages and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead, The, 154 Treason's lost device, 283 Trent, W. P., 304 Tribune (N. Y.), 156, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 266 n. Trimmer, Mrs., 397, 400 Trinity College, 277 Troilus and Cressida, 361 Trollope, Mrs., 127 Trowbridge, J. T., 402, 405 Trumbull, Benjamin, 106, 108, 111 Trumbull, John, 150, 207 Truth about Horace, the, 241 Tucker, George, 110, 111 Tucker, St. George, 305 Tuckerman, H. T., 58 n. Tudor, William, 105, 164 Tufts College, 207 n. Turn of the Screw, the, 375 Turner, J. A., 348, 349, 350, 354 Tuskegee, 324 Twice told tales, 16, 19, 21, 63, 64, 173 Two Rivulets, the, 265