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Golden Age Flashcards

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, British children’s literature was dominated by the _______

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adventure or boys’ stories (including the so-called schools story)

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Was a seaman and was the first to write historical adventures for children, most notably Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) and Children of the New Forest (1847).

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Captain Marryat

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wrote The Coral Island (1857)

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R. M. Ballantyne

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a Robinsonnade or survival story inspired by Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and the inspiration for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954).

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The Coral Island

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a war correspondent who traveled widely throughout the British Empire, wrote historical adventure books about the places he visited, among which is With Clive in India (1884).

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GA HENTY

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He is remembered for Treasure Island (serialized in 1881, published in book form in 1883)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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has become the quintessential pirate story swashbuckling and melodramatic, but not without its tantalizing ambiguity that keeps adults returning to it as well as children.

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Treasure Island (serialized in 1881, published in book form in 1883)

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A Child’s Garden of Verses [1885]

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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a vision of childhood as seen through an adult’s eyes.

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A Child’s Garden of Verses [1885] by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The glory of this first “Golden Age” is

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its fantasy

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An extraordinary fantasy filled with a delightful mixture of satire and nonsense and almost devoid of instructional moralizing, it is usually considered the first important work for children that completely broke the bonds of didacticism.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

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is a literary fairy tale with Princess Irene as the heroine

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The Princess and the Goblin (1872; originally serialized) by George Macdonald

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The Princess and the Curdie (1883; also serialized earlier)

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George MacDonald

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is noteworthy for its rather bitter ending, indicative, some say, of MacDonald’s general attitude toward humanity

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The Princess and the Curdie (1883; also serialized earlier) by George Macdonald

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The Brownies and Other Tales (1870)

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Juliana Horatia Ewing

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is a collection that recalls the moralizing of the eighteenth century

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Juliana Horatia Ewing’s The Brownies and Other Tales (1870)

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The title story, about dutiful and helpful children, remains part of our culture for it gave its name to the junior Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the United States).

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Juliana Horatia Ewing’s The Brownies and Other Tales (1870)

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is a rambling morality story describing the adventures of a chimney sweep in an enchanted underwater world. Despite the heavy-handed didacticism, the fantasy world is imaginative.

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Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies (1863)

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One of fantasy’s earliest writer-illustrators, whose talking animal tales, beginning with The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901), have set a high standard for children’s illustrated books .

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Beatrix Potter

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best advice on writing for children that has ever been penned: “I think the great point in writing for children is to have something to say and to say it in simple, direct language” (quoted in Hunt, An Introduction to Children’s Literature, 88).

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Beatrix Potter

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Wrote Peter Pan (1904), originally a play and eventually a prose story entitled Peter and Wendy (1911).

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J. M. Barrie

22
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He is remembered for The Wind in the Willows (1908)

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Kenneth Grahame

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The work is a paean to an idyllic and masculine world, the quintessence of Edwardian England. It is an episodic work filled with affable characters- Rat, Mole, Badger, and, of course, Mr. Toad-engaged in a variety of adventures. As with much great fantasy, this is a sophisticated work with a fair share of commentary about the adult world.

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The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame

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Excelled not only in fantasies (Five Children and It, 1902, and The Phoenix and the Carpet, 1903), but in the family adventure story, most notably the stories of the Bastable children (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1899, and others).

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Edith Nesbit

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Her work looks backward to earlier Victorian literature in its sometimes condescending portrayal of children, but her best books contain interesting and strongly drawn characters engaged in compelling plots.

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Edith Nesbit

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In 1894 he published The Jungle Book, a collection of fantasy tales set in India, featuring Mowgli, a boy who enjoys a special relationship with jungle creatures.

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Rudyard Kipling

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an almost brutally frank school story

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Kipling’s Stalky Co. (1899)

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Kipling turned to realism in

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Stalky Co. (1899)

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an almost brutally frank school story

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Stalky Co. (1899) by Rudyard Kipling

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a subgenre for Victorian boys focusing on the antics of boys at private boarding schools-called public schools in Britain

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school story

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The best known of school story

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Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days [1857]

32
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is the story of a boy of mixed heritage growing up in British India; a coming-of-age tale, it is generally regarded as his finest work.

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Kipling’s novel Kim (1901)

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regarded as Kipling’s finest work

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Kim (1901)

34
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She gained a lasting reputation with her modernized Cinderella stories

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

35
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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about an American youth who inherits an English noble title

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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about a girl who must overcome adversity through her essential goodness of heart

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A Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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most celebrated work of Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Secret Garden (191l)

39
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the story of Mary Lennox’s redemption in the bleak English moors

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The Secret Garden (191l) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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is a deliciously romantic work, with Gothic atmosphere, mysterious characters, and rich symbolism.

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The Secret Garden (191l) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

41
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1899

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Edith Nesbit

42
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The Phoenix and the Carpet, 1903

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Edith Nesbit

43
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Five Children and It, 1902

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Edith Nesbit

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