Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists,...
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Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhood has been considered, shaped and schooled through literacy practices, and the hitherto ignored
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; INTRODUCTION; Part I Handmade worlds; 1 CHILD'S PLAY OR FINDING THE EPHEMERA OF HOME; 2 JANE JOHNSON: A VERY PRETTY STORY TO TELL CHILDREN; 3 WOMEN TEACHING READING TO POOR CHILDREN IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES; Part II 'Some easy pleasant book'; 4 SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S AESOP; 5 JOHN NEWBERY AND TOM TELESCOPE; Part III Women writing for children; 6 'THE CURSED BARBAULD CREW': WOMEN WRITERS AND WRITING FOR CHILDREN IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
7 FAIRY TALES AND THEIR EARLY OPPONENTS: IN DEFENCE OF MRS TRIMMER8 IN THE ABSENCE OF MRS LEICESTER: MARY LAMB'S PLACE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LITERATURE OF CHILDHOOD; 9 FROM THE FRONT LINE; 10 'OF THE SPONTANEOUS KIND'?: WOMEN WRITING POETRY FOR CHILDREN - FROM JANE JOHNSON TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI; Part IV Learning to read in school; 11 THE DOMESTIC AND THE OFFICIAL CURRICULUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; 12 'I KNEW A DUCK': READING AND LEARNING IN DERBY'S POOR SCHOOLS; 13 CRIMINALS, QUADRUPEDS AND STITCHING UP GIRLS OR, CLASSES AND CLASSROOMS IN THE RAGGED SCHOOLS
Part V 'Configuring a world'14 CONFIGURING A WORLD: SOME CHILDHOOD WRITINGS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË; Index;
