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place in children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Prehistory (early Middle Ages to 1712)

    …for the potentially damned child, A Token for Children (1671), by James Janeway. The Puritan outlook was elevated by Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), which, often in simplified form, was either forced upon children or more probably actually enjoyed by them in lieu of anything better. Mrs. Overtheway (in Juliana Ewing’s…

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