In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
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Harriet Corp
HC
's publishers were Williams and Smith
. Of the nine editions by 1809, some broke her anonymity by giving her name (or got it wrong as Cope). Her book was very successful, though...
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Charlotte Yonge
CY
edited a two-part anthology of fiction for children, A Storehouse of Stories; it features work by Sarah Fielding
(unascribed), both Kilner
sisters (all ascribed to Dorothy
), and (probably) Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: v-vii
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5 February 1836: The children's writer Dorothy Kilner died...
Women writers item
5 February 1836
The children's writer Dorothy Kilner
died at Stratford near London; she and her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Kilner
(1753-1831), published their anonymous, undated works through John Marshall
from the 1770s.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vii-ix
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
58 (1784): 319
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
30 April 1907: A great-grand-daughter of children's writer...
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30 April 1907
A great-grand-daughter of children's writer Mary Ann Kilner
inscribed a copy of Mary Ann's Memoirs of a Peg-Top, published around 1785, as a gift to her own grandson Anthony Crookham
.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.