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Title Children and their books : a celebration of the work of Iona and Peter Opie / edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs ; with a foreword by Iona Opie
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990

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Description xvi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs -- Collecting Children's Books: Self-indulgence and Scholarship / Brian Alderson -- Selections from the Accession Diaries of Peter Opie / Clive Hurst -- Children in Early Modern England / Keith Thomas -- A Child Prophet: Martha Hatfield as The Wise Virgin / Nigel Smith -- The Puritans and their Heirs / Gillian Avery -- The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script Was Used to Tame the Beast in Us / Jack Zipes -- 'Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre' or, How History Reaches the Nursery / Giles Barber -- William Godwin as Children's Bookseller / William St. Clair -- Dodgson, Carroll, and the Emancipation of Alice / John Batchelor -- Arthur Hughes as Illustrator for Children / Kate Flint -- Women Writers and Writing for Children: From Sarah Fielding to E. Nesbit / Julia Briggs -- E. Nesbit and The Book of Dragons / W.W. Robinson -- Excessively Impertinent Bunnies: The Subversive Element in Beatrix Potter / Humphrey Carpenter -- The Wind in the Willows: The Vitality of a Classic / Neil Phillip -- Henry James's Children / Barbara Everett -- The Child in Walter de la Mare / John Bayley -- Tolkien's Great War / Hugh Brogan -- William Mayne / Alison Lurie -- Children's Diaries / A.O.J. Cockshut -- Children's Manuscript Magazines in the Bodleian Library / Olivia Bell and Alan Bell
Analysis 11030 children's literature in English to 1982 60030 critical studies
Children
Children Books and reading Great Britain History
Children's literature Collectors and collecting
Children's literature, English
Children's literature, English History and criticism
Geschichte
Opie, Iona Archibald
Opie, Peter
Opie, Peter
Children's literature in English, to 1982 - Critical studies
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
Opie, Peter.
Book collecting -- Great Britain.
Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.
Children's books -- Collectors and collecting.
Children's literature -- Collectors and collecting.
Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
Children's songs -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Festschriften.
Author Avery, Gillian, 1926-2016.
Briggs, Julia.
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
Opie, Peter.
LC no. 88027005
ISBN 0198122535 (paperback)
0198129912