I. HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Ainger, Alfred. Lectures and Essays. Vol. I. 1905.
Ashton, John. Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century. 1882.
Dobson, H. Austin. De Libris. 1908. [On Maria Edgeworth and Kate Greenaway.]
Eckenstein, Lina. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes. 1906.
Field, E. M. The Child and his Book. 1892.
Godfrey, Elizabeth. English Children in the Olden Time. 1907.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Catalogue of Chapbooks, Garlands, and Popular Histories. Privately ptd. 1849.
The Nursery Rhymes of England. (Percy Society. Early English Poetry, vol. IV.) 18423. Enlarged edn. 1846.
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. 1849.
Keightley, Thomas. Fairy Mythology. 1828. Enlarged edn. (Bohn.) 1847.
Lucas, E. V. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago. 1906. Selections, with introduction.
Old-Fashioned Tales. 1905. Selections, with introduction.
Mackarness, Mrs. H. (born Planché). Children of the Olden Time. 1874.
Pearson, Edwin. Banbury Chapbooks and Nursery Toy Book Literature of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. (Limited edn., privately ptd.) 1890.
Salmon, Edward. Juvenile Literature as it is. 1888.
Tuer, A. W. The History of the Horn-Book. 2 vols. 1896.
Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Childrens Books. 18989.
Stories from Old-Fashioned Childrens Books. 18991900. See, also, his introduction to reprint of Lambs Prince Dorus, 1889.
Tytler, Sarah (Keddie, Henrietta). Childhood a Hundred Years Ago. 1877.
Welsh, Charles. A Bookseller of the Last Century [i.e. John Newbery]. 1885. See, also, his introductions to A. Berquins Looking-Glass for the Mind; to W. Roscoes Butterflys Ball; to Mrs. C. A. Dorsets The Peacock At Home, and The Lions Masquerade; and to Elizabeth Turners The Daisy and The Cowslip; of which details are given below.
Yonge, C. M. A Storehouse of Stories. 2 vols. 1870. Selections, with introduction.
A work which cannot be overlooked by anyone who studies the subject, but which defies classification, is The Story of Pet Marjorie [Fleming], with her Journals. Ed. Macbean, L. 1905. See, also, Marjorie Fleming, a sketch. By Brown, John. 1863.
The Atlantic Monthly, 1888; Chamberss Journal, 1855, 1862 (on chapbooks); The Cornhill Magazine, 1900; The English Illustrated Magazine, 1883 (The New Hero, by Watts-Dunton, Theodore); Frasers Magazine, 1846 (Thackeray, W. M.); The Guardian of Education, 18024 (a retrospect by Trimmer, Mrs.); The Imprint, 1913 (Crane, Walter, and others); The Library, 1901; Macmillans Magazine, 1869 (Yonge, Charlotte M.); National Review, 1905; Newbery House Magazine, 18901 (Welsh, Charles); Notes and Queries, 1913 (11th series, vol. VII: largely bibliographical); Opuscula of the Sette of Odd Volumes, nos. 11 and 13 (privately ptd., by Welsh, Charles); Quarterly Review, vols. LXXI, LXXIV, CLXII, CLXXXIII, CXCII, CXCIV; The Studio (Winter Number), 18978 (White, Gleeson); The Sunday at Home (1894).
Germane to the subject, but not concerned with it primarily, are very many works on education (for which see the various chapters in this History), many on morals and the state of society (particularly in the reign of George III) and many biographies. Most of the introductions to reprints of individual works contain historical matter. Welshs Bookseller of the Last Century gives a full bibliography of all Newberys publications from 1740 to 1802. Eckensteins Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes contains a brief list of works on this highly-specialised branch of the subject: except for the few convenient summary treatises mentioned above, books on folk-lore pure and simple are not included here. The Folk-lore Society has traced most fairy tales to their oral appearance all over the world.
For early writers whose works passed into the hands of children, see the references in the text to previous volumes of this History. Adult writers who also wrote books for children are mentioned below.
II. CHAPBOOK EDITIONS
These often piratical productions not merely included any new popular work of the day, but preserved many traditional tales and rimes not otherwise recorded in
print. They were seldom dated, and the old blocks were used over and over again, in different circumstances. It is impossible to give a strict bibliography of them. So far as children are concerned, they began about 1700 and died out about 1820; towards the end of that period, the more responsible publishers copied the chapbook format to some extent, but provided new type, new blocks and good paper. The chief works regularly produced in chapbook form were: Bevis of Southampton; The Children (or Babes) in the Wood; Cock Robin; Cries of London; Cries of York; Robinson Crusoe; Eastern Tales (Arabian Nights and similar stories); Fables; Fairy Tales (Perrault, etc.; usually single tales, not collections); John Gilpin; Guy of Warwick; Tom Hickathrift; The House that Jack Built; Mother Hubbard; Jack The Giant-Killer; Jack and Jill; Nursery Rimes of all kinds, under various titles; Adventures of Philip Quarll; Riddle-books; The Seven Champions of Christendom; Tom Thumb; Valentine and Orson; Dr. Wattss poems, under various titles; Sir Richard Whittington.
III. SELECTED AUTHORS
In this and the following section only the most important authors and works are included. In some cases, the first edition cannot be traced, though it is known that existing editions are not the first. Where dates are given in brackets, they are those which are certified by the known facts of the authors life, or by the work of an illustrator, or by the publishers name.
(Anonymous works are included among Minor Writers, below.)
Aikin, Anna Laetitia (afterwards Mrs. Barbauld). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781.
Lessons for Children. 4 parts. 1808.
Life of. Memoir of Mrs. B., by Le Breton, A. L. 1874.
Aikin, A. L. and J. (Barbauld and Aikin). Evenings at Home. 6 vols. 17926.
Aikin, John. The Calendar of Nature. 2nd edn. 1816.
Aikin, Lucy. Juvenile Correspondence. 2nd edn. 1816.
Poetry for Children. (Selected by L. A.) 1803.
Memoirs etc. of. Ed. by Le Breton, P. H. 1864.
Also many versions of classical works in words of one syllable, under pseud. Godolphin, Mary.
Argus, Arabella. The Adventures of a Donkey. 1815. Further Adventures. 1821.
The Juvenile Spectator. 2 parts. 1810.
Ostentation and Liberality. 2 vols. 1821.
Ballantyne, Robert Michael. See Reference Catalogue of current literature, issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons), and the D. of N. B.
Barbauld, Mrs. See Aikin, A. L., ante.
Belson, Mary. See Elliott, Mary, post.
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. See, Chap. IX, ante.
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Country Rhimes for Children. By J. B. 1686. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Temporal Things Spiritualised (a revised and shortened version of the first edn.), 1701; 3rd edn., 1707; 9th edn., as Divine Emblems or Temporal Things Spiritualised, 1724. Facsimile reprint of 1st edn., with introd. by Brown, John, 1889.
Burton, Richard See Crouch, N., post.
Carroll, Lewis (i.e. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge). Alices Adventures in Wonderland. 1865. Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. 1871. Both illustrated by Tenniel, Sir John. The Nursery Alice. 1890.
Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. 1876.
Sylvie and Bruno. 1889.
Sylvie and Bruno concluded. 1893.
Life and Letters of. By Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. 1898.
Chapone, Mrs. See ante, Chap. XV.
Cole, Sir Henry (pseud. Summerley, Felix). The Home Treasury. 12 vols. 184355.
Crossman, Samuel. The Young Mans Calling: or the Whole Duty of Youth
. And also, Divine Poems. 1685. Other edns.: 1695, 1725.
Crouch, N. (pseud. Burton, Richard, or B., R.). Winter Evening Entertainments; in two Parts. 6th edn. 1737. [The first edition appears to have been published at least by 1685.]
Youths Divine Pastime. 3rd edn. 1691.
Day, Thomas. The Childrens Miscellany: in which is included the History of Little Jack. 1787.
The History of Sandford and Merton. 3 vols. Vol. I. 1783. Vol. II. 1786. Vol. III. 1789. Translated into French, An VI de la République.
Dickens, Charles. Holiday Romance. 1868.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis, ante.
Dorset, Mrs. C. A. The Lions Masquerade. 1807. Facsimile rpt. ed. Welsh, C. 1883.
The Peacock At Home. By a Lady. 1807. Facsimile rpt., ed. Welsh, C. 1883.
The Peacock and Parrot on their Tour. 1816.
Think before you Speak, or The Three Wishes. 1809.
Edgeworth, Maria. See ante, Chap. XIII.
Elliott, Mary (born Belson). (Where no dates are given, the publishers names necessitate a date between 1805 and 1825.)
The Adventures of Thomas Two Shoes: being a sequel to The modern Goody Two Shoes (V. post). n.d. [not later than 1818].
Confidential Memoirs, or the Adventures of a Parrot, a Greyhound, a Cat, and a Monkey. 1821.
Grateful Tributes: or Recollections of Infancy. n.d. [not later than 1816].
Idle Ann, or the Dunce Reclaimed. n.d.
Industry and Idleness: a pleasing and instructive tale. 1811.
The Modern Goody Two Shoes. n.d. [not later than 1818].
The Orphan Boy, or a Journey to Bath. n.d. [not later than 1816].
Precept and Example, or Midsummer Holidays. n.d. [not later than 1812].
The Rambles of a Butterfly. 1819.
Simple Truths in Verse. n.d. [not later than 1816].
The Sunflower, or Poetical Truths for Young Minds. 1822.
Tales for Boys. n.d.
Tales for Girls. n.d.
Tales of Truth. n.d.
Truth our Best Friend. 1825.
[A majority of the above were translated into French soon after publication.]
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Brownies, and Other Tales. Illustd. by Cruikshank. 1870.
Daddy Darwins Dovecot. Illustd. by Caldecott, R. 1884.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing. 1873.
Jackanapes. Illustd. by Caldecott, R. 1884.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, and Other Tales. Illustd. by Cruikshank, G. 1873. Illustd. by Caldecott, R. 1885.
Mrs. Overtheways Remembrances. 1869.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales. 1882.
Six to Sixteen. 1876.
The Story of a Short Life. 1885.
Life of J. H. E. and her Books, by Gatty, Horatia K. F. 1885.
Fables. It is impossible to trace the exact descent of fables into childrens literature. The translations under the name of Aesop (q. v. under Foreign Works, sect. V, post) gave them literary currency, and Gays metrical versions stereotyped them. (For Gay, see ante, Vol. IX, Chap. VI.) There do not seem to have been any definite early versions (for children) of Bidpai (Pilpay), Babrius, or Phaedrus. Probably a certain amount of oral tradition entered into the chapbook versions, of which there were many. See, also, s. v. La Fountaine (Foreign Works, sect. V. post).
Fairy Tales. See Ewing, J. H., Jacobs, J., Lang, A. (in this sect.); The Court of Oberon, Mother Bunch, Mulock, D. M. (in sect. IV); and under Foreign Works, s.v. Asbjörnsen, Grimm, Perrault: see, also, History and Criticism, sect. I, ante.
Fenn, Eleanor (Lady F.). Cobwebs to Catch Flies. 2 vols. n.d.
Fables in Monosyllables. n.d.
The Fairy Spectator. 1789.
The Juvenile Tatler. 1789.
Mrs. Lovechilds Golden Present. n.d. [Published by Newbery, John.]
Short Sermons for Young Persons. By Lovechild, Mrs. n.d. [Newbery.]
[Lady F. also wrote as Mrs. Teachwell, but, it is not possible to identify the exact works certainly. It was a common pseudonym 17501820.]
Life of. See Unstoried in History. By Festing, Gabrielle. 1901.
[Chap. VI deals with Lady F. and her sister, from family documents.]
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess, or Little Female Academy. [Anonymous.] 2nd edn. 1749. Revised, and practically rewritten and remodelled, by Mrs. Sherwood in 1820. [Sometimes quoted as Mrs. Teachum.]
Gatty, Margaret. Aunt Judys Tales. 1859.
The Fairy Godmothers and other Tales. 1851.
Parables from Nature. 185571. Complete edn., with memoir by Ewing, J. H. 1880.
Gay, John. (Fables.) See ante, Vol. IX, Chap. VI.
Godolphin, Mary. See Aikin, Lucy, ante.
Goldsmith, Oliver (?). Goody Two Shoes. (The History of Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.) 1766. Facsimile rpt. of earliest extant edn., ed. by Welsh, C., with introd. 1881.
For Goldsmiths undoubted works, see ante, Vol. X, Chap. IX.
Guyse, John, D. D. Youths Monitor. 3rd edn. 1747.
Youth reminded of a Judgment to Come. 1729.
Hack, Maria. English Stories. 1820. 2nd series. 1820. 3rd series. 1825.
Grecian Stories. 1819.
Harry Beaufoy. 1821.
Lectures at Home. 2nd edn. 1841.
Tales of the Great and Brave. n.d.
Winter Evenings. 4 vols. 181819.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Bruey. 2nd edn. 1873.
Little Pillows. 1875.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Morning Bells. 1875.
Autobiographical Sketch. 1881.
Henty, George Alfred. See Reference Catalogue of current literature issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons) and D. of N. B.
Hofland, Mrs. Alfred Campbell, the Young Pilgrim, 1825. [Also known as The Young Pilgrim.]
The Daughter of a Genius. 1823.
The History of a Clergymans Widow and her young Family. 1812.
Matilda; or, The Barbadoes Girl. 1816. [Also known by its sub-title.]
The Son of a Genius. n.d.
William and his Uncle Ben. 1826.
Howard, the Hon. Edward Granville Legge. Rattlin the Reefer. 2nd edn. 1836. [Ed. by Marryat, Capt.]
Howitt, Mary and William. The Boys Country Book. 1839.
The Childrens Year. 1847.
The Childhood of Mary Leeson. 1848.
Hymns and Fireside Verses. 1839.
The Picture Book for the Young. 1855.
Tales in Prose for Young People. 1864.
Tales in Verse for Young People. 1864.
See, also, Andersen, H. C., sect. V, Foreign Works, post.
Hughes, Mary, born Robson. See Robson, Mary, post.
Hughes, Thomas. Tom Browns School Days. 1857. Many edns., esp. 1911 (introd. by Howells, W. D.) and 1913 (ed. by Sidgwick, F.)
The Scouring of the White Horse. 1859. Illustd. by Doyle, R.
Jacobs, Joseph (Ed. by). The Book of Wonder Voyages. 1896.
Celtic Fairy Tales. 1891. More C. F. T. 1894.
English Fairy Tales. 1890. More E. F. T. 1893.
Indian Fairy Tales. 1892.
See, also, Aesop, sect. V, Foreign Works, post.
Janeway, James. A Token for Children, being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several young Children. 16712.
Jefferies, Richard. Bevis. 1882.
The Story of my Heart. 1883.
Keary, Annie. The Heroes of Asgard. 1857. [By A. K. and her sister, E. K.]
Little Wanderlin and other Fairy Tales. 1865.
Kendall, Edward Augustus. Keepers Travels in Search of his Master. 1798.
Parental Education; or Domestic Lessons
for Youth. 1803.
The Stories of Senex, or Little Histories of Little People. 1800.
Kilner, Dorothy. (There is some obscurity as to her work. According to family tradition, she wrote all childrens books signed M. P., and her sister-inlaw, M. J. K. (see post), wrote those signed S. S. They are often allocated otherwise, however, and some are attributed to Lady Fenn, q.v. ante.)
Anecdotes of a Boarding School. 2 vols. n.d. [1790?].
Anecdotes of a Little Family. n.d.
Ellen Harding, or the Tell-Tale. 1849. [? Earlier edns.]
The Holiday Present. n.d.
Letters from a Mother to her Children. 2 vols. 2nd edn. 1787.
The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse. 2 vols. [1775?]
The Rotchfords. [1800?]
Kilner, Dorothy. Sunday School Dialogues. [1790?] [Attributed in Brit. Mus. catalogue to Lady Fenn.]
The Village School. n.d.
Kilner, Mary Jane (pseud. S. S.; see ante, s.v. Kilner, Dorothy). The Adventures of a Pin-Cushion. n.d.
The Adventures of a Silver Penny. 1787.
Jemima Placid. 1813.
The Memoirs of a Peg Top. New edn. 1828.
A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings
Kingsley, Charles. Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore. 1855.
The Heroes. 1856.
The Water Babies. 1863.
Kingston, William Henry Giles. See Reference Catalogue of current literature, issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons) and D. of N. B.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. 1807.
Lang, Andrew (Ed. by). The Blue Fairy Book. 1889. Followed by many other volumes under the title of the cover colour.
The Blue Poetry Book. 1891.
The Nursery Rhyme Book. 1897.
See, also, s.v. Grimm, Perrault, sect. V. Foreign Works, post.
Lear, Edward. Book of Nonsense. 1846. 2nd edn. 1862.
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. 1871.
More Nonsense Songs. 1872.
Letters of, ed. by Strachey, Lady. 1907. Later Letters. 1911.
Macdonald, George. At the Back of the North Wind. 1871.
The Princess and the Goblin. 1872.
Macleod, Norman. The Gold Thread. 1861. Other edns., especially 1907 (with introd.) and 1911.
Marryat, Frederick. The Children of the New Forest. 1847.
Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific. 1841.
The Settlers in Canada. 1844.
[Marryats even better-known books, Midshipman Easy, Peter Simple, and their companions, were written in the first place as novels, though they have become established as books for boys.]
Martineau, Harriet. The Playfellow. 4 pts. 1841. [Includes The Settlers at Home, The Peasant and the Prince, Feats on the Fiord, and The Crofton Boys, all of which went into many edns. in a separate form.]
Autobiography. 3 vols. 1877.
More, Hannah. See ante, Chap. XV.
Mortimer, Favell Lee, Mrs. Far Off. 1852.
Line upon Line. 1837.
Near Home. 1849.
The Peep of Day. 1873.
Reading without Tears. 1857.
Nursery Rimes. See Eckenstein, L., and Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O., sect. I, History and Criticism, ante. See, also, Mother Goose, and The Top-Book of All, sect. IV. post.
Osborne, Francis. Advice to a Son. 1656. Pt. II. 1658.
Parley, Peter. This pseudonym was adopted by several writers, who cannot all be identified. The most voluminous users of it were Goodrich, Samuel Griswold, and Martin, William. An alleged Rev. T. Wilson, to whom
many Peter Parley books have frequently been attributed, never existed: he was a figment created by the publishers (Darton and Clarke), Doctor Samuel Clarke being the chief, but not the only, participant in the works to which the fictitious name was attached.
The chief works published under the pseudonym were:
Parleys Cabinet Library. 2 vols. A miscellany. n.d. .
Persevere and Prosper. n.d. New edn. 1864.
P. P.s Illustrations of Commerce; of the Animal Kingdom etc. [184050.]
P.P.s Tales about Africa. [Other vols. about other countries.] Various dates: same period. [These were ed. by Goodrich, S. G. Also re-ed. by Mogridge, George.]
The Hatchups. 1858.
The Holiday Keepsake. 1865. [These were mainly by Martin, W.]
P.P.s Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky. 1837. [Ed. by Wilson, T.]
Pilkington, Mrs. M. S. Biography for Boys. n.d.
Biography for Girls. 1799.
Marvellous Adventures, or The Vicissitudes of a Cat. 1802.
A Mirror for the Female Sex. 2nd edn. 1799.
Obedience Rewarded, and Prejudice Conquered: or, the History of Mortimer Lascelles. 1797.
[Mrs. P. also translated parts of Mme. de Genliss Vieilles du Château, and Marmontels Tales. See sect. V, Foreign Works, post.]
P., M. See ante, Kilner, Dorothy.
Reed, Talbot Baines. See Reference Catalogue of current literature, issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons) and D. of N. B.
Reid, Mayne. See Reference Catalogue of current literature, issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons) and D. of N. B.
Robson, Mary (afterwards Hughes or Hughs). The Alchemist. 1818.
The Orphan Girl. 1819.
The Ornaments Discovered.
Something New from Aunt Mary. 1820.
Ronksley, William. The Childs Weeks Work
Roscoe, William. The Butterflys Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast. 1807. Facsimile rpt. ed. Welsh, C. 1883.
Rossetti, Christina. Sing-Song. 1872.
Ruskin, John. The King of the Golden River. 1851. See, also, sect. IV, post, s.v. Dame Wiggins.
Sherwood, Martha Mary. The Governess. See Fielding, Sarah, ante.
The History of the Fairchild Family. 3 parts. 181847. This work has never been out of print since 1818. Chief modern edns. (revised), ed. Palgrave, M. E., 1899; ed. Strachey, Lady, 1913.
The History of Henry Milner. 4 parts. 18237.
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer. 1832.
The History of Susan Grey. 1815.
The Infants Progress from the Valley of Destruction to Everlasting Glory. 1821.
The Little Woodman and his Dog Caesar.
The Lady of the Manor. 18259.
[Some minor works (chiefly tracts) published under Mrs. S.s name were not entirely by her, but were written by her daughter, Mrs. Kelly, under her inspiration.]
Sherwood, Martha Mary. Life. Ed. by her daughter, Kelly, Sophia. 1854. Re-written from original MS. autobiography by Darton, F. J. H. 1910.
Sinclair, Catherine. Holiday House. 1839.
S., S. See ante, Kilner, Dorothy.
Strickland, Agnes. The Juvenile Forget-me-not. 1827.
The Moss-House. [Anon.] 1822.
The Rival Crusoes. 1826.
Tales of the School-Room. [1835?]
The Tell-Tale. 1823.
The Young Emigrant. 1826.
Summerley, Felix. See Cole, Sir Henry, ante.
Taylor, Ann (Mrs. T., of Ongar). The Family Mansion. 2nd edn. 1820.
Maternal Solicitude. 3rd edn. 1814.
Taylor, Ann (daughter of Mrs. T. of Ongar: afterwards Mrs. Gilbert). Autobiography. 2 vols. 1874.
Signor Topsy-Turvys Wonderful Magic Lantern etc. 1810. [The titlepage attributes this to A. T. alone. But her sister and her brother Jefferys had a share in it.]
The Wedding Among the Flowers. 1808.