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contribution to children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: From T.W. to Alice (1712?–1865)

    Sarah Kirby Trimmer, whose Fabulous Histories specialized in piety, opposed the presumably free-thinking Rousseau on religious grounds but was in other respects strongly influenced by him. The same is true of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with her characteristically titled Lessons for Children. But Mary Martha Sherwood…

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