17470 Children's Titles Part of the Oxford Studies

Part of the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series

This copy from 1969 is the 3rd printing of the corrected second edition

Drawing on recent research into urban history

but the illustrations are gorgeous and unusual

University of Toronto Press

17470 Children's Titles Part of the Oxford StudiesBarbauld [1743 1825] was a political writer, poet, teacher, essayist, edictor and critic. Running a school with her husband in a Suffolk village, she revolutionized the nation's ideas about childhood with books she wrote that sold thousands. Living in the time of the American and French Revolutions, Napoleonic Wars, and struggles for religious equality, she strove to defend Enlightenment principles with her essays, and political writings. Wordsworth