Author: BARBAULD (Mrs. Anna Laetitia):
Title: Lessons for Children. A New Edition.
Description: London: Printed for Baldwn and Cradock; Longman and Co.; J. Bookere; Hamilton and Co.; Darton and Harvey;Dulac and Co.; and Simpkin and Marshall. 1834 12mo (in 6s), 136 x 82 mms., pp. iv, 176, engraved vignette on title-page, and 4 other engraved vignettes at the beginning of each part, contemporary quarter green roan, marbled boards, gilt spine; top and base of spine chipped, spine cand boards rubbed, corners slightly worn. "In Lessons for Children Barbauld creates the authorial persona of the parent-author. This figure came to dominate middle-class British children's literature during the turn of the century. Barbauld explains in her preface that she wrote her book 'for a particular child […] but the public is welcome to the use of it' (LessonsI, p. iii). This authorial emphasis on the unique, real-life origins of mass-produced book signalled the birth of the parent-author, figure who addresses his or her implied users with permissive language, positioning purchasers and readers as outsiders granted access to a personalised item." Jessica Wen Hui Lim, "Barbauld's Lessons: The Conversational Primer in Late Eighteenth Century British Children's Literature" Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2020). Library Hub and OCLC locate a number of microforms and electronic copies, but the real book seems to be found only in Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison, and Toronto

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