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's high standing with parents and generations of children in Britain, Europe, the USA, and the British Commonwealth began to be shaken by allegations of racism while she was still alive, though she found...
Literary responses
Mary Collyer
Brian Alderson
noted that this may be the earliest known publication of secular stories for children in English, and called it the pearl of the Ludford Box—
qtd. in
Immel, Andrea. “A Christmass-Box. Mary Homebred and Mary Collyer: Connecting the Dots”. Childrens Books History Society Newsletter, No. 94, Dec. 2009, pp. 1-4.