Culturing the Child, 1690-1914

Donelle Ruwe is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and is on the Governing Board of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association. She publishes on British children's literature and women writers.

It is a fortunate thing that the festschrift in honor of Mitzi Myers is a good and useful book. I shall certainly put it on the reading list for my graduate level history of children's literature class in the spring, and I am sure that others will also fund uses for a collection of essays that are intelligent, sometimes surprising, and enjoyable to read....The book is notable for the breadth of the scholarship evoked, and the various footnotes and references along with this Myers bibliography might themselves be worth the cost of the volume to a scholar entering the field.

• Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 IntroductionPart 3 Part 1: Creating the Contexts of Children's LiteratureChapter 4 1 The Book on the Bookseller's Shelf and the Book in the English Child's HandChapter 5 2 Virtue in the Guise of Vice: The Making and Unmaking of Morality from Fairy Tale FantasyChapter 6 3 "Delightful Task!": Women, Children, and Reading in the Mid-Eighteenth CenturyPart 7 Part 2: Reading the Rational DamesChapter 8 4 Mother of All Discourses: Anna Barbauld's Lessons for ChildrenChapter 9 5 Gender, Nationalism, and Science in Hannah More's Pedagogical Plays for ChildrenChapter 10 6 "A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things": Sarah Trimmer and The Guardian of EducationPart 11 Part 3: The Politics of Pedagogy and the ChildChapter 12 7 The Making and Unmaking of a Children's Classic: The Case of Scott's IvanhoeChapter 13 8 Heroism Reconsidered: Negotiating Autonomy in St. Nicholas Magazine (1873-1914)Chapter 14 9 Worlds of Girls: Educational Reform and Fictional Form in L.T. Mead's School StoriesPart 15 Part 4: Remembering Mitzi MyersChapter 16 10 Mitzi Myers: A Memoir (9 October 1939 to 5 November 2001)Chapter 17 11 The Scholarly Legacy of Mitzi MyersChapter 18 12 A Bibliography of Mitzi Myers's Scholarly WorksPart 19 IndexPart 20 About the Contributors