Children’s Literature in the Long 19th Century

Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK, and the Editor of Children’s Literature in Education. Her latest book is Literary Studies Deconstructed (2018).Ann Alston is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is the author of The Family in English Children’s Literature (2008) and co-editor of Roald Dahl (New Casebooks) (with Catherine Butler, 2012), and has also published essays on Roald Dahl’s children’s literature.

• Introduction 1. The British Reception of Genlis’s Adèle et Théodore, Preceptive Fiction and the Professionalization of Handmade Literacies 2. The Metropolis and Female Citizenship in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories from Real Life 3. Satirical Conservatism in Catherine Ann Dorset’s Papillonades 4. "How One Subject Springs Out of Another!": The Strickland Family and Early Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature 5. "Marietza": An Example of Catherine Maria Sedgwick’S Depiction of the "Other" in Her Books for Children 6. American Woman: Feminine Speech and the Reformation of National Identity through Female Community in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl 7. The Empire Girl Goes to War: Bessie Marchant’s World War I Fiction