Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME
's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott
, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publishing
Maria Edgeworth
This was not the first collected edition, and another followed in 1848.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
This journal included essays on moral topics. It was important for taking children's literature seriously and publishing reviews of it. Critic Andrew O'Malley
notes that the reviews contain a compendium of her views on education...
Textual Production
Susanna Haswell Rowson
This appeared in the same year as the sixth edition of Ann Murry
's work of the same title, Mentoria; or, The Young Lady's Instructor, first published in 1778 (to which it bears no...
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Sarah Trimmer
It was collected in five volumes for publication in book form in 1810. An index to it was published in 1990 by UCLA
, with an introduction by Mitzi Myers
.
Avery, Gillian et al. “Selected Bibliography: Sarah Trimmer”. Fabulous Histories; and, The Dairyman’s Daughter, edited by Justin G. Schiller et al., Garland Publishing, 1977, p. xiv - xvi.
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Heath, Pauline. The works of Mrs. Trimmer (1742-1810). Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
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Texts
Myers, Mitzi, and Maria Edgeworth. “Introduction”. The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and, The Cherry Orchard, Augustan Reprints, Augustan Reprint Society, 1990, p. iii - xiii.
Myers, Mitzi, and Andrea Immel. “Introduction”. Revolutionary Reviewing, Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1990, p. vii - xv.
Immel, Andrea, and Mitzi Myers. Revolutionary Reviewing. Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, 1990.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Mitzi Myers. The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and, The Cherry Orchard. Augustan Reprint Society, 1990.