LITERATURE
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND CHILDHOOD
Children's Literature and Childhood provides a wide range of primary sources documenting the experience of
childhood in the "long" 19th century, often called the golden age of children's literature.
Included in the archive are books and periodicals for children, primers and other educational material, pamphlets
produced by child welfare groups, documents and photos related to children and crime, newspapers produced by
juveniles, and much more.
Carefully curated, this unique assemblage of monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, and photos is
sourced from such renowned institutions as the University of Florida's Baldwin Library Collection of Historical
Children's Literature, the National Archives (UK), the American Antiquarian Society, and the British Library,
among others.
NINTEENTH CENTURY COLLECTIONS ONLINE
DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that in the early nineteenth century, the "nature, symptoms, and danger of Intemperance"
were communicated to children at a very early age both through school and through popular
literature?
Author of Sabbath School Teacher's Visits. The Family Temperance Meeting: Or an Illustration of the Nature, Symptoms,
and Danger of Intemperance: by the Author of "Sabbath School Teacher's Visits". Boston: Published by James Loring, 1830.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Web. 25 July 2014.
Gale NewsVault Gale Artemis: Primary Sources
