Early didactic writing for children has had a very bad press ever since the rise of fantasy in Victorian times. Nevertheless there is something extreme and gratuitous in Geoffrey Summerfield
's verdict in 1985 that...
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Jeni Couzyn
JC
's introduction is a succinct and sharply intelligent historical sketch of women's poetry in English and the forces arrayed against it. She begins with the Gaelic oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands as represented...
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Summerfield, Geoffrey. Fantasy and Reason: Children’s Literature in the Eighteenth Century. University of Georgia Press, 1985.
