International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
romantic parts of the British Empire, extended and reinforced familiarity with the form and imperialistic values of the adventur ...
Usually as the result of a domestic crisis, sometimes because of the death of a parent or a decline in the family fortunes, the ...
adventure stories, such as Anne Bowman (1801–1890). (Later writers such as Bessie Marchant (1862–1941) actually showed girls enj ...
But Stevenson uses and develops these formulaic elements with imagination and seriousness. He introduces considerable variety in ...
relations in Europe. That tradition was extended by ‘Oliver Optic’ (the pseudonym of W.T.Adams (1822– 1897)), whose story The Bo ...
successfully conveyed the way many flyers, with their strange mixture of flippancy and idealism, behaved during the First World ...
The character of realistic contemporary adventure stories has also changed dramatically since the Second World War, for when tot ...
adventure remain, Western society is changing, and it is inevitable that adventure stories should reflect these changes. Referen ...
27 The Family Story Gillian Avery It is a curious fact that few authors of juvenile domestic tales have felt equal to depicting ...
in fact far more lifelike than the two children in Catherine Sinclair’s Holiday House (1839), a book expressly written to show ‘ ...
Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839–1921) was more preoccupied with social status than either of the two former writers. She was always ...
published in the same year). Holiday adventures certainly involved families, but in these books fathers are abroad or invisible ...
but for almost the first time an English writer succeeds in presenting it from within and not as a phenomenon which has to be ex ...
men, I think,” said Mr Halyard, “the American farmers are the most independent, and the most happy”.’ (For years to come writers ...
Rebecca is lively and literary rather than tearful and godly. Jean Webster’s Daddy Long- Legs (1912) places its heroine (literar ...
the Civil War. It is ‘Marmee’ upon whom the whole household depends. (It was to be the same in Eight Cousins (1875) where no fat ...
Moffats’s father is dead; Mama is a kindly and efficient, though unobtrusive presence. In Madeleine L’Engle’s Meet the Austins ( ...
Further Reading Andrews, S. (ed.) (1963) The Hewins Lectures 1947–1962, Boston: Horn Book. Avery, G. (1975) Childhood’s Pattern: ...
28 School Stories Sheila Ray Attendance at school for some years between the ages of 5 and 18 is a common experience, and one we ...
easier when he joins his older brother at Crofton School; alas, his high expectations are disappointed. These school stories by ...
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