Author: Galbraith, Gretchen R.
Title: Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books, and Schools in Britain, 1870-1920
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, (1997). orig.boards. 22x14cm, vii,184 pp. Binding spine corner bumped. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: British Childhoods Remembered: "As Through a Telescope Reversed":British Childhoods, 1860-1914; Reading Lives & Lives of Reading; Constructing a Literature of Childhood: "Real & Wholesome Pleasure": Critics Guard the Boundaries of Children's Literature; Creating a Magazine World; "Another Ladder Altogether"? Writing for Children; The Politics of Literacy in London's Board Schools: An "Efficient & Suitable" Elementary Education; Overpressure in London's Board Schools, 1883-1884; "A Power of Reading": "The Key to All Knowledge".

Keywords: History of Education, Great Britain, Elementary Schools, British Schooling, Childhood Children, Children's, Literature, Literary Criticism, Social History