Nineteenth Century Collections Online: #4
Children's Literature and Childhood
 
Explore children's literature from around the world during the nineteenth century Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood documents the growth of children's literature during the nineteenth century and provides legal and sociological texts to contextualize this growth. Included are texts from Europe, Asia, and North America. In its focus and range, this collection opens an array of compelling subjects for research and teaching. Social, moral, economic, and political questions are reflected in children's literature universally, making it a particularly rich trove for academic study. Additionally, intricate illustrations and children's book texts from North Africa are included, as well as full-text, fully searchable content from a broad range of primary sources.

Multidisciplinary in nature, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood provides insights into societal values, interests, and education of the nineteenth century and supports the growing academic interest in this time period. Among the many topics included are:

• immigrant children
• racial and gender socialization
• myths of childhood
• children and religion
• the changeling in Victorian literature of childhood
• fairy tales and realism
• conception of childhood
• acculturation of children
• death in children's fiction

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood includes content from archives and university, public, and national libraries, having been developed for use at academic and research libraries. Included is content from the U.K. National Archives, which features material on child welfare and reform, education, juvenile health, and juvenile crime and detention; the British Library, which includes monographs related to education as well as fiction and a selection of periodicals for children; and the Hine Collection of photographs, which depict child labor in America. We continue to work with the University of Florida, the American Antiquarian Society, and others to provide a full picture of nineteenth-century children's literature and the social construction of children worldwide.

Collections in this Archive

• Childhood in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Home Office
• Child Welfare and Reform: Records from the Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security
• Education in the Nineteenth Century: Records from the Department of Education and Science
• Growing Up in America: Children's Literature of Immigrant Communities
• The History of Education: Education and Social Issues
• The History of Education: Education of the Handicapped
• The History of Education: Psychology
• Juvenile Crime and Detention: Records from the Prison Commission
• Juvenile Journalists: Selected Amateur Newspapers
• Learning and Leisure: A Selection of Children's Literature from the British Library
• Selected Titles from the Children's Collection at the American Antiquarian Society
• Selections from the Baldwin Library Collection of Historical Children's Literature