Popular Children's Literature in BritainJulia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby This study of popularity and children's literature is organised into four sections: 'Old Tales Retold', 'Forgotten Favourites', 'Popular Instruction, Popularity Imposed' and 'The Famous Three - Blyton, Dahl and Rowling'. |
Contents
Children Chapbooks and | 25 |
Robin Hood in Boys Weeklies to 1914 | 47 |
From Chapbooks to Pantomime | 87 |
Introduction | 101 |
Hesba Strettons Outcast Stories | 123 |
The Adventure Stories of G A Henty | 149 |
Angela Brazil and the Making of the Girls School Story | 165 |
Introduction | 185 |
Science for Children in the | 209 |
Mee Hammerton | 229 |
Introduction | 247 |
And Children Swarmed to Him Like Settlers He Became a Land | 271 |
The Launching of Harry Potter | 287 |
Reading Desires in the | 301 |
Further Reading | 317 |
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