Opening The Nursery Door

by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415148987
• ISBN13: 9780415148986
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"