Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930

Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children’s literature, with a particular focus on children’s periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature (1840–1940) (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850–1915 (2012). She is co-editor of Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (2023), Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019), Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950 (2014), and Girls’ School Stories, 1749–1929 (2014).

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Children, Charity, and the Periodical Press2. Charitable Publics3. Charitable Agency4. Charitable Motivation5. Charitable Subjectivity6. Transnational Charity7. Charitable Habits8. Conclusion: Charitable Children, Real and ImaginedBibliography

Moruzi offers a compelling study of Anglophone children’s charity work over nearly a century. By analysing the rhetorical strategies of periodicals for the young, she provides invaluable insight into the roles of children not only as readers and consumers of philanthropic print material, but also as donors, fundraisers and writers.