Women Writers of Children's Classics

by Mary Sebag-Montefiore

This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th Century female children's writers, who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood. They wrote of family, gender, parenthood, morals, class, behaviour, religion and death. Behind the idylls that they strove to impart lay not only conflicts between realism and idealism, and between convention and radicalism, but also the chasms in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746311575
• ISBN13: 9780746311578
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.8"