Opening The Nursery Door

Opening the Nursery Dooris a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhood has been considered, shaped and schooled through literacy practices, and the hitherto ignored role of women educators in early childhood across all classes.

List of figures

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List of contributors

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INTRODUCTION

1

(16)

Mary Hilton

Part I Handmade worlds

17

(48)

1 CHILD'S PLAY OR FINDING THE EPHEMERA OF HOME

17

(14)

Shirley Brice Heath

2 JANE JOHNSON: A VERY PRETTY STORY TO TELL CHILDREN

31

(16)

Victor Watson

3 WOMEN TEACHING READING TO POOR CHILDREN IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

47

(18)

Margaret Spufford

Part II `Some easy pleasant book'

65

(26)

4 SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S AESOP

65

(15)

David Whitley

5 JOHN NEWBERY AND TOM TELESCOPE

80

(11)

John Rowe Townsend

Part III Women writing for children

91

(13)

6 `THE CURSED BARBAULD CREW': WOMEN WRITERS AND WRITING FOR CHILDREN IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

91

(13)

Norma Clarke

7 FAIRY TALES AND THEIR EARLY OPPONENTS: IN DEFENCE OF MRS TRIMMER

104

(13)

Nicholas Tucker

8 IN THE ABSENCE OF MRS LEICESTER: MARY LAMB'S PLACE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LITERATURE OF CHILDHOOD

117

(16)

Janet Bottoms

9 FROM THE FRONT LINE

133

(9)

Jan Mark

10 `OF THE SPONTANEOUS KIND'?: WOMEN WRITING POETRY FOR CHILDREN - FROM JANE JOHNSON TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

142

(19)

Morag Styles

Part IV Learning to read in school

161

(54)

11 THE DOMESTIC AND THE OFFICIAL CURRICULUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

161

(19)

David Vincent

12 `I KNEW A DUCK': READING AND LEARNING IN DERBY'S POOR SCHOOLS

180

(19)

Hilary Minns

13 CRIMINALS, QUADRUPEDS AND STITCHING UP GIRLS OR, CLASSES AND CLASSROOMS IN THE RAGGED SCHOOLS

199

(16)

Julia Swindells

Part V `Configuring a world'

215

(20)

14 CONFIGURING A WORLD: SOME CHILDHOOD WRITINGS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE

215

(20)

Heather Glen

Index

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Opening The Nursery Door

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