Lissa Paul, a professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University in Canada, publishes and speaks internationally. She is the author of Reading Otherways (Thimble 1998), an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (Norton 2005), and co-editor, with Phil Nel, of Keywords for Children’s Literature (New York UP 2011) . She is currently working on a biography of Eliza Fenwick (1767-1840).

"While this is definitely a scholar's book drawing on scholarly contexts, readers familiar with standard histories of children's literature will find food for thought in Paul's championing of figures earlier historians have dismissed."-- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2011"An image-rich and engaging work of scholarship…Paul’s book includes much that will be of interest to those in book history, women’s writings, and children’s literature, particularly in its study of the importance and reach of Talbart’s collection of books. Paul also provides important jumping-off points for future, much-needed research into the careers of Fenwick and Ann and Jane Taylor." –Studies in English Literature, 2011

• Introduction: And in this Book There Are Many Houses. Chapter 1: This is the House that Ben Built. Chapter 2: These are the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 3: These are the Lessons Taught from the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 4: These are the Women Who Wrote the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 5: These are (Not) the Children who Read the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 6: In the End

Lissa Paul, a professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University in Canada, publishes and speaks internationally. She is the author of Reading Otherways (Thimble 1998), an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (Norton 2005), and co-editor, with Phil Nel, of Keywords for Children’s Literature (New York UP 2011) . She is currently working on a biography of Eliza Fenwick (1767-1840).

"While this is definitely a scholar's book drawing on scholarly contexts, readers familiar with standard histories of children's literature will find food for thought in Paul's championing of figures earlier historians have dismissed."-- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2011"An image-rich and engaging work of scholarship…Paul’s book includes much that will be of interest to those in book history, women’s writings, and children’s literature, particularly in its study of the importance and reach of Talbart’s collection of books. Paul also provides important jumping-off points for future, much-needed research into the careers of Fenwick and Ann and Jane Taylor." –Studies in English Literature, 2011

• Introduction: And in this Book There Are Many Houses. Chapter 1: This is the House that Ben Built. Chapter 2: These are the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 3: These are the Lessons Taught from the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 4: These are the Women Who Wrote the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 5: These are (Not) the Children who Read the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 6: In the End

Lissa Paul, a professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University in Canada, publishes and speaks internationally. She is the author of Reading Otherways (Thimble 1998), an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (Norton 2005), and co-editor, with Phil Nel, of Keywords for Children’s Literature (New York UP 2011) . She is currently working on a biography of Eliza Fenwick (1767-1840).

"While this is definitely a scholar's book drawing on scholarly contexts, readers familiar with standard histories of children's literature will find food for thought in Paul's championing of figures earlier historians have dismissed."-- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2011"An image-rich and engaging work of scholarship…Paul’s book includes much that will be of interest to those in book history, women’s writings, and children’s literature, particularly in its study of the importance and reach of Talbart’s collection of books. Paul also provides important jumping-off points for future, much-needed research into the careers of Fenwick and Ann and Jane Taylor." –Studies in English Literature, 2011

• Introduction: And in this Book There Are Many Houses. Chapter 1: This is the House that Ben Built. Chapter 2: These are the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 3: These are the Lessons Taught from the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 4: These are the Women Who Wrote the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 5: These are (Not) the Children who Read the Books that Lived in the House that Ben Built. Chapter 6: In the End