Sammelband / Collection with 18 rare Children's Books bound in One Miniature Volume. The Volume includes [chronologically]: 1. Hannah More - "The Lancashire Collier Girl - A True Story". London, 1847. (29 pages with Frontispice and three text-illustrations) / 2. "The Obedient Child" - Luke II.40-52 (Prayer in Poetry-Form) / 16 pages. No Titlepage. No year of Printing / 3. "Martha Brown; or, The Industrious Daughter". London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 4. "The Deaf and Dumb Girl". London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 5. "The Effects of Disobedience". London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 6. "The Baker's Boy". London, 1847. (15 pages with Frontispice) / 7. "Dick and his Mother". London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice)

[More, Hannah] & [Sherwood, Mary Martha] / [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].

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Miniature Binding: 7.5 cm wide x 10 cm high. Hardcover / 19th century half-leather with gilt lettering on spine ["Stories"] and marbled-paper-covered boards. Binding firm. Bottom Spine with minor damage. Page 17 repaired. Receding Ink-stain to endpapers, Frontispice and first 29 pages. Interior otherwise very good. Very rare collection of moralizing 19th century children's stories. Hannah More (2 February 1745 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a group opposing the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism, being described as an anti-feminist, a "counter-revolutionary", or a conservative feminist. (Wikipedia) _________________________________________ Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt; 6 May 1775 22 September 1851) was a nineteenth-century English children's writer. Of her more than four hundred works, the best known include The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814) and the two series The History of Henry Milner (1822 1837) and The History of the Fairchild Family (1818 1847). Her evangelicalism permeated her early writings, but later works cover common Victorian themes such as domesticity. Mary Martha Butt married Captain Henry Sherwood and moved to India for eleven years. She converted to evangelical Christianity, opened schools for the children of army officers and local Indian children, adopted neglected or orphaned children, and founded an orphanage. She was inspired to write fiction for the children in the military encampments. Her work was well received in Britain, where the Sherwoods returned in 1816 for medical reasons. She opened a boarding school, edited a children's magazine, and published hundreds of tracts, novels, and other works for children and the poor, which increased her popularity in both the United States and Britain. She died in 1851 in Twickenham, Middlesex. Sherwood's career included three periods: her romantic period (1795 1805), her evangelical period (1810 c. 1830), in which she produced her most popular and influential works, and her post-evangelical period (c. 1830 1851). Themes in her writing included "her conviction of inherent human corruption", her belief that literature "had a catechetical utility" for every rank of society, her belief that "the dynamics of family life" should reflect central Christian principles, and her "virulent" anti-Catholicism. Sherwood was called "one of the most significant authors of children's literature of the nineteenth century". Her depictions of domesticity and ties with India may have influenced many young readers, but her work fell from favour as children's literature broadened in the late nineteenth century. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

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• Titre: Sammelband / Collection with 18 rare Children's Books bound in One Miniature Volume. The Volume includes [chronologically]: 1. Hannah More - "The Lancashire Collier Girl - A True Story". London, 1847. (29 pages with Frontispice and three text-illustrations) / 2. "The Obedient Child" - Luke II.40-52 (Prayer in Poetry-Form) / 16 pages. No Titlepage. No year of Printing / 3. "Martha Brown; or, The Industrious Daughter". London, 1847. (16 pages with Frontispice) / 4. "The Deaf and Dumb Girl". ...
• Éditeur: London, Published for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
• Date de parution: 1847
• Reliure: Couverture souple
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