From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850 / edited by Patricia Demers.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Demers, Patricia, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Children's literature, English.

Table of Contents:

1. Early Lessons at Home and School
From The Colloquy (c. 1000) / Aelfric
From On the Properties of Things (c. 1200) / Bartholomew the Englishman
ABC of Aristotle (c. 1430) / Anonymous
from The Schoole of Vertue and Booke of Good Nurture (1557) / Francis Seager
From The Boke of Nurture, or Schoole of Good Manners (1577) / Hugh Rhodes
From A Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) / Hugh Plat
Hornbook
Battledore
Domestic Writing: Juvenilia
'A new yeres gift' (1581) / William Paget
'George Bercklay to his grandfather' (1610) and 'George to Mrs Cave his mothers wayting woman' (c. 1613) / George Berkeley
Letter to her Father: Mary Downing to Emmanuel Downing (1635) / Mary Downing
Mothers' Advice and Grief
From Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives (1604) / Elizabeth Grymeston
From The Mothers Blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh
From The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne Childe (1624) / Elizabeth Joscelin
From A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters (1645) / Elizabeth Richardson
'On the death of my first and dearest childe' (1655) / Katherine Philips
'On the Death of my dear Daughter' (1703) / Mary Chudleigh
Writing of Clergymen and Schoolmasters
From This Historie of Four-Footed Beastes (1607) / Edward Topsell
From Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659) / Johan Amos Comenius
2. Puritan 'Hell-Fire': Warnings and Warmth
From Milk for Babes (1646) / John Cotton
'Upon my Son Samuel' (1657) and 'In reference to her Children' (1659) / Anne Bradstreet
From A Token for Children (1672) / James Janeway
From War with the Devil (1673) / Benjamin Keach
From The New England Primer (1683-1830)
From A Book for Boys and Girls (1686) / John Bunyan
3. Lyrical Instruction: Isaac Watts and his Contemporaries
From Divine Songs (1715) and Moral Songs (1740) / Isaac Watts
From Fables (1727) / John Gay
From Poems on Several Occasions (1734) / Mary Barber
4. Chapbooks and Penny Histories
Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1744)
Interesting Story of the Children in the Wood
From The Life and Death of Tom Thumb
From The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift
Trial of an Ox, for Killing a Man
From The Riddle Book
5. Boreman, Cooper, and Newbery: 'Instructions with Delight'
From The Gigantick History (1741) / Thomas Boreman
From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) / John Newbery
From Nurse Truelove's New Year's Gift (1755)
From The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765)
6. Rational Moralists
From The Governess (1749) / Sarah Fielding
From The Adventures of a Pincushion (c. 1780) / Mary Ann Kilner
From Poems an Various Subjects (1783) / Jane Cave
From Her Journal Book (1783) / Anne 'Nancy' Shippen Livingston
From The History of Sandford and Merton (1783) / Thomas Day
From Cobwebs to Catch Flies (c. 1783) / Eleanor Fenn
From Original Stories (1788) / Mary Wollstonecraft
From Mental Improvement (1794) / Priscilla Wakefield
From The Village School (c. 1795) / Dorothy Kilner
'The Purple Jar' from Early Lessons (1801) / Maria Edgeworth
From The Young Emigrants (1826) / Catharine Parr Traill
From The Affectionate Parent's Gift (1828) / Henry Sharpe Horsley
From Mary's Grammar (1835) / Jane Marcet
From Rollo at School (1839) / Jacob Abbott
'Janetta and her Jujubes' from Farewell Tales (1840) / Barbara Hofland
From Make the Best of It (1843) / Samuel Griswold Goodrich
7. Sunday School Moralists
From Early Piety (1777) / George Burder
From Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) and Lessons for Children: Part IV (1788) / Anna Letitia Barbauld
From Fabulous Histories (1786) and The Charity School Spelling Book (c. 1798) / Sarah Trimmer
From Divine Hymns (1790) and Instructions for Children (1794) / Rowland Hill
Black Giles, the Poacher: Part II (1796) / Hannah More
From The History of the Fairchild Family (1818) / Mary Martha Sherwood
From The Peep of Day (1833) / Favell Lee Mortimer
From Flowers That Never Fade (1838) / Lucy Leman Rede
From Dutch Tiles (1842) / Dalby
8. Harbingers of the Golden Age
From Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1772) and 'My Cat Jeoffry' from Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) / William Blake
From The Infant's Library (c. 1800) / John Marshall
From Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804-5) and Rhymes for the Nursery (1806) / Ann Taylor Gilbert and Jane Taylor
From The Daisy (1807) / Elizabeth Turner
Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807) / William Roscoe
Peacock 'At Home' (1807) / Catherine Ann Dorset
From Poems (1808) / Felicia Dorothea Browne
From Poetry for Children (1809) / Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
From Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1813)
'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (1823) / Clement Clarke Moore
From Poems for Our Children (1830) / Sarah Josepha Hale
Story of the Three Bears (1831) / Eleanor Mure
From Sketches of Natural History (1834) / Mary Botham Howitt
From Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839) / Catherine Sinclair
From New Nursery Songs for All Good Children (1843) / Eliza Lee Follen
From The Book of Nonsense (1846) / Edward Lear
From The English Struwwelpeter (1848) / Heinrich Hoffmann
Sad Tale of Mrs Mole and Mrs Mouse (c. 1849) / Jane Cotton Boucher de Montizambert.

From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850 / edited by Patricia Demers.

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