British Children's Writers, 1880-1914

British Children's Writers, 1880-1914
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Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105005184242
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Synopsis British Children's Writers, 1880-1914 by : Laura M. Zaidman

pThis award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. IDictionary of Literary Biography /I provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. p IDictionary of Literary Biography /I systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. PFor a listing of IDictionary of Literary Biography /I volumes sorted by genre a href ="/pdf/facts/DBLvolbygenre.pdf"click here. /a

British Children's Writers, 1800-1880

British Children's Writers, 1800-1880
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105018432976
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Synopsis British Children's Writers, 1800-1880 by : Meena Khorana

Like other volumes in the series, this work discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work, from initial publication to 1995. Each entry includes a complete list of the author's works.

British Children's Writers, 1914-1960

British Children's Writers, 1914-1960
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Publisher : Detroit, MI : Gale Research
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015003017291
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Synopsis British Children's Writers, 1914-1960 by : Donald R. Hettinga

Essays on authors and poets in this volume represent some of the best-known writers of children's literature in the twentieth century. This period is marked by certain characteristics, such as stories of groups of children bonded together, the emergence of strong female protagonists, the "career books", and a consciously subdued presence of pain and suffering. Many of these works are valued for the window they provided upon a culture now gone

The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites

The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9780313040924
ISBN-13 : 0313040923
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Synopsis The Undergraduate's Companion to Children's Writers and Their Web Sites by : Jennifer Stevens

This volume, one in the Undergraduate Companion series, focuses on American and British writers for children and young adults and is addressed to students in both English and Education classes. It provides both print and free online sources. Most undergraduates do not possess the research skills necessary to evaluate Web sites. This volume will address their needs by providing pathfinders to works by, about, and related to key writers of children's and young adult fiction. Included are entries for 185 British and American writers and writing teams, most from the 20th century. Young adult and adult. Grades 9 and up.

British Children's Writers Since 1960

British Children's Writers Since 1960
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105009736088
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Synopsis British Children's Writers Since 1960 by : Caroline Collins Hunt

Essays on authors whose works range from the traditional or reactionary, to the experimental. During this time, the "problem novel" gained ground. Competition from other media, such as the television, influenced the juvenile-book market. During this period a publishers' group was formed to give serious thought to the direction in which juvenile books should go.

British Reform Writers, 1832-1914

British Reform Writers, 1832-1914
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Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105023165546
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Synopsis British Reform Writers, 1832-1914 by : Gary Kelly

Essays on British reform writers during a time when Britain struggled to establish a new and stable political, social and economic order. Includes major writers as well as others known mainly as sociopolitical thinkers, reformers, and socialists as well as reform oriented critics and educators.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 930
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ISBN-10 : 0826417787
ISBN-13 : 9780826417787
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by : Bernice E. Cullinan

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

Women and the Victorian Occult

Women and the Victorian Occult
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9781317982524
ISBN-13 : 1317982525
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and the Victorian Occult by : Tatiana Kontou

Increasingly, contemporary scholarship reveals the strong connection between Victorian women and the world of the nineteenth-century supernatural. Women were intrinsically bound to the occult and the esoteric from mediums who materialised spirits to the epiphanic experiences of the New Woman, from theosophy to telepathy. This volume addresses the various ways in which Victorian women expressed themselves and were constructed by the occult through a broad range of texts. By examining the roles of women as automatic writing mediums, spiritualists, authors, editors, theosophists, socialists and how they interpreted the occult in their life and work, the contributors in this edition return to sensation novels, ghost stories, autobiographies, séances and fashionable magazines to access the visible and invisible worlds of Victorian life. The variety of texts analysed by the authors in this collection demonstrates the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues that bore immediate implications on their own lives. Either by catering for the fad of ghost stories or by giving public trance speeches women harnessed the metaphorical and financial forces of the supernatural. As the articles in this book demonstrate the occult was after all a female affair. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781683356875
ISBN-13 : 168335687X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit by : Eleanor Fitzsimons

A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year: The “informative and entertaining” first major biography of the trailblazing, controversial children’s author (The Washington Post). Born in 1858, Edith Nesbit is today considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children’s adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the little-known details of her life, introducing readers to the Fabian Society cofounder and fabulous socialite who hosted legendary parties and had admirers by the dozen, including George Bernard Shaw. Through Nesbit’s letters and archival research, Fitzsimons reveals “E.” to have been a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism and shows how Nesbit incorporated these ideas into her writing, thereby influencing a generation of children—an aspect of her literary legacy never before examined. Fitzsimons’s riveting biography brings new light to the life and works of this remarkable writer and woman. “Meticulous and invaluable...exceptionally illuminating and detailed.” —The Wall Street Journal “Fitzsimons handily reassembles the hundreds of intricate, idiosyncratic parts of the miraculous E. Nesbit machine.” —The New York Times Book Review “I’ve always loved the work of E. Nesbit—The Railway Children and Five Children and It are my favorites—but I knew nothing about the extraordinary, surprising life of this great figure in children’s literature . . . so gripping that I read [it] in two days.” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times-bestsellingauthor of The Happiness Project “A charming, lively, and old-fashioned biography . . . highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “A terrific book.” —Neil Gaiman