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Preface to the First Edition | ||
Preface to the Third Edition | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
I | An Introductory Survey | 1 |
II | The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (i) Fables | 9 |
III | The Legacy of the Middle Ages: (ii) Romance and Manners | 32 |
IV | The Puritans: 'Good Godly Books' | 51 |
V | The Pedlar's Pack: 'The Running Stationers' | 68 |
VI | Fairy-Tale and Nursery Rhyme | 85 |
VII | Interim: Between the Old and the New | 106 |
VIII | John Newbery | 120 |
IX | The Theorists: Thomas Day, the Edgeworths, and French Influence | 140 |
X | The Moral Tale: (i) Didactic | 156 |
XI | The Moral Tale: (ii) Persuasive; Chiefly in Verse | 176 |
XII | Interim Again: the Dawn of Levity | 199 |
XIII | Two New Englands: 'Peter Parley' and 'Felix Summerly' | 219 |
XIV | The Sixties: 'Alice' and After | 252 |
XV | The Eighties and Today: Freedom | 293 |
Appendixes | ||
1 | Some Additional Notes on Victorian and Edwardian Times | 316 |
2 | An Outline of the Evolution of Two Publishers | 332 |
3 | A Listing of Books by F. J. Harvey Darton | 336 |
4 | F. J. Harvey Darton: 'The Youth of a Children's Magazine' | 339 |
Editor's Notes | 349 | |
General Book List | 362 | |
Sources of Illustrations | 372 | |
Index | 376 |
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