Women Writers of Children's Classics

by Mary Sebag-Montefiore and Mary Montefiore

This study explores the lives and works of 4 major 19th C female children's writers, who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood. They wrote of family, gender, parenthood, morals, class, behaviour, religion and death. Behind the idylls that they strove to impart lay not only conflicts between realism and idealism, and between convention and radicalism, but also the chasms in their own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746311575
• ISBN13: 9780746311578
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.8"