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Women writers of children's classics

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This is a study of 4 major female 19th C children's writers who created a literary halcyon image of childhood, which, juxtaposed with their turbulent lives, reveals the dilemmas and desires of the Victorian frame of mind.This study explores the lives and works of 4 major 19th C female children's writers, who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.

They wrote of family, gender, parenthood, morals, class, behaviour, religion and death.

Behind the idylls that they strove to impart lay not only conflicts between realism and idealism, and between convention and radicalism, but also the chasms in their own turbulent lives.

The Victorian age was a study in contradictions. An analysis of its core - its fears and hopes for the future of its children - are revealed in its most influential children's books, and the extraordinary lives of their authors.It is suitable for: students of literature, history and women's studies; students and teachers in education courses; schools, academic and public libraries; and, general readers.

It features an engaging introduction put in the context of social history. It is the only brief biography of these 4 female writers.

It is a study that ranges across academic disciplines.

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0746311524 / 9780746311523
Hardback
01/01/2008
United Kingdom
English
128 p.
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