A Century of Children's Books
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A Century of Children's Books is by Florence V. Barry. The preface says the book was begun at Oxford before the War, and was continued at intervals and under many difficulties. The preface also says the history of children’s books is in some sort a record of childhood.
In the story of Elizabeth Villiers, the little girl has learnt to read from her mother’s epitaph, and her sailor uncle, just home from sea, finds her in the churchyard rehearsing her lesson. Emily Barton is described as a little Cinderella, carried off by her father, whom she has forgotten, from the house of relations who have neglected her. George Fox, in his Warning to all Teachers, condemns, among other sins of children, the telling of Tales, Stories, Jests, Rhimes and Fables.
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- Florence V. Barry
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- 190
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