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This is a list of 19th-century British children's literature titles, arranged by year of publication. Moral Tales for Young People (1801) by Maria Edgeworth " The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of A Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe ", Priscilla Wakefield (1801)
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Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children. In Europe, Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press around 1440 made possible mass production of books, though the first printed books were quite expensive and remained so for a ...
List of authors of 19th-century British children's literature, arranged by year of birth: Eliza Fenwick (1767–1840) ...
Children's literature scholar Anne Lundin explains that at the end of the 19th century, as toy books became more elaborate, contemporary reviewers said of them, "Art for the nursery has become Art indeed", in contrast to books of a few decades earlier, described as "plain and clumsy to ugliness in their exterior".
Matilda Anne Mackarness (née Planché; 23 November 1825 – 6 May 1881) was an English novelist of the 19th century, primarily writing children's literature.
Children's Literature Reverend Henry Cadwallader Adams (4 November 1817 – 17 October 1899) was a 19th-century English cleric , schoolmaster and writer of children's novels . He was the grandson of Simon Adams of Ansty Hall , Warwickshire .
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...