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A.B.C. for Children, An, 71 Apollonian child, 3 ABCs, 70–1 Apology for Poetry, An, 70 About a Boy, 246 Apostles’ Creed, 27 Acid House, The, 247 ‘Appeal for Poor Children, An,’ 147 adolescentia, 4, 22–3, 33 Ariès, Philippe, 4–5, 21–2, 25, 34, 88 Aventures of a Prisoner in Fairyland, 174 Centuries of Childhood, 4–5, 21 Aesop ‘Ariès effect,’ 21–2, 34 Aesop Improved, 69–70, 76, 80 Armstrong, Nancy, 95 ‘Age of Terror,’ 240 Armstrong, Richard Ages of Man, 4 Sea Change, 217 Alcott, Louisa May Art of Being Ruled, The, 199 Little Women, 120–1 Artesia, 79 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 9, Ashley, Bernard 116, 123–9 Donovan Croft, 223 Alma redemptoris mater, 27 Trouble with Donovan Croft, The, 235 Almond, David ‘At Lehmann’s,’ 208 Fire-Eaters, The, 14, 225, 233–4 At the Back of the North Wind, 119–20 Amadis de Gaul, 79 ‘At the Bay,’ 208, 209 amen, 27 Atonement, 14, 239, 241–3, 248–9 Amis, Kingsley Auerbach, Nina, 123 Lucky Jim, 216 ‘Auguries of Innocence,’ 175 Amis, Martin Ave, 27, 30 London Fields, 240 Ayers, David, 200 Andersen, Hans Christian, 120, 128 ‘Little Match-Seller, The,’ 118, 119, ‘Baby Tuckoo among the Grown-Ups,’ 124 12–13, 196–209 Anglo-Boer war, 12, 165 Bacon, Fryar, 79 ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose,’ 201–2 Baden-Powell, Agnes Ann Veronica, 187 Handbook for Girl Guides, or, How Anon Girls Can Help Build the Empire, Aesop Improved,69 The, 166 ‘Boys Make Men,’ 148 Baden-Powell, Robert, 166 ‘From “Our alley” to the Green Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Fields,’ 150 Instruction in Good Citizenship, ‘The Flower Girl,’ 151 166 ‘Is it All Still There?’ 155 Bage, Robert King and Queen’s Entertainment at Hermsprong: or, Man as He Is Not, Richmond,55 91–2 ‘Music and the Drama,’ 51 Bailey, Merridee, 30 Office of Christian Parents, The, 57 Ballard, R. V. Anticipations, 189–91 ‘Christmas Story, A,’ 156–7 Apollo Shroving, 55 Ballet Shoes, 226

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Banks, Iain, 15, 240 Blake, William, 8, 106, 108–11, 174, Wasp Factory, The, 15, 240 225 baptism, 22–6, 174 ‘Auguries of Innocence,’ 175 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 8, 111 ‘Chimney Sweeper, The,’ 108–9 Barker, Pat ‘Lamb, The,’ 106–7 Border Crossing, 15, 242 ‘Little Black Boy, The,’ 108–9, 225 ‘Barnardo Alphabet, The,’ 158–60 Poetry and Prose of William Blake, Barnardo, Dr, 147, 149, 150, 153, 154, The, 106 158 ‘Schoolboy, The,’ 107–8, 112 Barne, Kitty Songs of Innocence, 106, 108 Visitors from London, 217 Songs of Innocence and Experience, 8, Barney, Richard, 93 110 Plots of Enlightenment, 87 blankslate,2,6,104 Barrie, J. M., 12, 166, 167, 168, ‘Bliss,’ 208 169, 173, 174, 175, 176, Blue Lagoon, The, 12, 165, 167, 177, 179 169–73, 178–9 Little White Bird, The, 167, 175–6 Blyton, Enid, 217, 222 Peter and Wendy, 12, 167–74, 176, Boas, Frederick Samuel, 51, 117 178, 179 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 29 Booke of Merrie Riddles, The, 71 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 167 Border Crossing, 15, 242 Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Borrowers, The, 218 Grow Up, 12, 13, 166, 167, 176, Borsay, Peter, 89 178 Boston, Lucy Basement Room, The, 214–15 A Stranger at Green Knowe, 218 Bates, Charley, 134–5 Children of Green Knowe, The, 218 Bawden, Nina Bourdieu, Pierre Carrie’s War, 14, 222, 225, 231 Language and Symbolic Power, 33 Beebe, Minnie, 191 Bowden, Caroline, 56 Belloc, Hilaire Bowen, Elizabeth, 13, 197, 207, 209, Cautionary Tales for Children, 166 248 Benjamin, Floella HouseinParis,The,13, 207 Coming to England, 14, 225, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The, 247 235, 236 Boyne, John Benjamin, Jessica, 201 Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The, 247 Bennett, Andrew, 209 ‘Boys Make Men,’ 148 Bennett, Arnold, 197 Brazil, Angela, 166 Bentley, G. E., 64 ‘Brenda’ (Georgina Castle Smith) Beresford, J. D. Froggy’s Little Brother, 10, 136, 138 Imperfect Mother, An, 204 Nothing to Nobody, 139–42 Bergson, Henri, 199 Brent-Dyer, Elinor, 222 birth, 22–6 ‘Chalet School,’ 222 Blackwood, Algernon, 12, 167, Bridge of Children’s Books, A, 213 173–9 Brinsley, John, 6, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78 A Prisoner in Fairyland: (The Book A Consolation for Our Grammar That ‘Uncle Paul’ Wrote, 174 Schools,77 ‘Clairvoyance,’ 176 Children’s Dialogues, 6, 72–8 Education of Uncle Paul, The, 12, 167, Corderius Dialogues Translated 169, 173–9 Grammatically, 74 Index 253

Esop’s Fables Translated Cautionary Tales for Grammatically, 76 Children, 166 Ludus Literarius, 72, 73 Cecil, William, 55 British Children’s Books in the Twentieth ‘Celestial Omnibus, The,’ 12, 183, Century, 226 187, 191–4 British Library (BL), 29 Cement Garden, The, 14–15, 227, Britten, Benjamin, 215 239–44 Brome, Richard, 60–1 Centuries of Childhood, 4–5, 21 Jovial Crew, A, 61 Century of the Child, The, Brontë, Charlotte, 9, 10, 11, 165 123, 128 ‘Chalet School,’ 222 Jane Eyre, 10, 121–2 Chambers, Aidan, 227 Brooke, Rupert, 199 ‘Changing Status of Children and Brooks, Cleanth, 47 Children’s Literature, The,’ Brooks, Libby, 2 230–1 Buckeridge, Anthony, 222 Charles I, 55 Burke, Christian Charlie and the Chocolate ‘Grown Old Before Their Time,’ Factory, 227 157–8 Chaucer, Geoffrey Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 166, 182, ‘Clerk’s Tale, The,’ 31 219, 226 ‘Prioress’s Tale, The,’ 24, 27 In the Closed Room, 166 Chedgzoy, Kate, 57–8, 62–3 Little Princess, A, 166, 226 Secret Garden, The, 166, 219 Shakespeare and Childhood, 39 Shuttle, The, 166 child Burney, Frances angelic, 3, 9, 40, 41, 42, 116–20, Evelina: or, The History of a Young 121, 123, 124, 128, 129, 143 Lady’s Entrance into the World, 92 Apollonian, 3 Burton, Richard, 65 corruption and, 3, 13, 98 n.11, 116, Bushell, Thomas, 56 118, 131, 134, 135, 137, 140, Butler, Samuel 142, 144 n.1, 150, 154–5, Erewhon, 183 158–9, 189, 196, 214–16, 223 Way of All Flesh, The, 12, n.1, 227, 246 182–6, 194 crime and, 10, 15, 52, 118, 131–44, 152, 165, 183, 186, 187, 234, Cambridge University, 183 242, 248, 249 Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 94 death and, 6, 9, 16, 24, 25, 38, 40–2, New Robinson Crusoe, The, (Robinson 44, 46, 47, 50, 101, 104–5, der Jüngere) 92–4 116–18, 119, 120, 124, 128, Carew, Thomas, 60 153, 155–6, 166, 172, 177–9, Carnegie Medal, 216–22 205–6, 239, 240 ‘Carol, A,’ 196 degenerate, 10, 131–44 Carpenter, Mary, 138, 140 Dionysian, 3 Carrie’s War, 14, 222, 225, 231 Enigmatic, 4 Carroll, Lewis idealization of, 2, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 9, 29, 41, 42, 116, 117, 120, 121, 116, 123–9, 225 123, 128, 137, 147, 150, 151, Cary, Phoebe 166, 196, 200, 205, 220, 240, ‘Nobody’s Child,’ 151 241, 246 254 Index child – continued Child in Time, The, 14, 239, 243–7 innocence of, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, ‘Child-Who-Was-Tired, The,’ 208 13, 15, 16, 24, 40, 41–2, 49, 50, Childermass, The, 200 52, 62, 91, 102, 104, 105, 106, Childe’s First Tutor, The, 71–2 110, 114, 116–17, 119, 120, childgered, 28 128, 131–44, 150, 154, 155, childhood studies, 1, 21, 34, 38–9 156, 169, 183, 200, 206, 207, childishness, 26, 28, 29, 34, 40, 43, 49, 209, 213–16, 219, 220, 234, 50, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 66, 76, 94, 239–43, 244, 246, 249 119, 121, 124, 150, 191, 192, natural, 3, 6, 7, 8, 33, 39, 40, 43, 44, 193, 208 89, 102, 104, 105, 112, 119, Children and Young Person’s Act, 165 123, 128, 133, 152, 170, 172, Children of Green Knowe, The 218 244, 248 Children of Paul’s, 57 nature and, 8, 12, 41, 87, 89, 110, Children of the King’s Revels, 57, 61, 112, 116, 117, 128, 133, 151, 64 154–6, 166, 167, 170, 171, 173, Children of the Queen’s Revels, 57 175, 179, 188, 190, 241, 246 Children of the Revels, 6, 55–6, 61–5 nostalgia and, 2, 7, 8, 13, 14, 91, Children’s Act, 185, 238 109–10, 129, 212, 213, 222, 223 Children’s Advocate, The, 10, 148 power and, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 33, Children’s Advocate and Christian at 44, 48, 50, 51, 52, 89, 92, 108–9, Work, The, 149, 152 111, 116, 118, 119, 120, 126, Children’s Commissioner, 238 127, 128, 129, 137, 146, 165, Children’s Dialogues, 6, 72–8 182–3, 186, 193, 194, 197, 200, Children’s Encyclopedia, The, 166 209, 214, 226, 227, 228, 231 Children’s Homes, The, 147, 149, 153, ‘real,’ 2, 3–4, 9, 28, 38, 40, 41, 44, 157–8 49, 62, 89, 96, 104, 116, 120–3, Children’s Talke: Claused and Drawne 129, 150, 153, 166, 185 into Lessons, 73 redemption and, 4, 14, 119, 120, Children’s Treasury, 149 134, 140, 141, 155, 157, 187, Children’s Week Association, 155 213, 225 ‘Chimney Sweeper, The,’ 108–9 Romantic, 3, 6, 7–9, 12, 16, 24, 41, Chloridia, 55 88, 89, 90, 91, 101–15, 124, Christabel, 102 129, 132, 133, 136, 147, 152, Christmas Carol, A, 245 154, 158, 174–5, 178, 187, 205, ‘Christmas Story, A,’ 156–7 206, 241, 243, 245–6, 247 Christopher, John, 227 sinful,2,4,5,10 Church of England Waifs and Strays supernatural and, 8, 29, 102, 173, Society, 153 192, 206, 219 Cibber, Colley, 51 unnatural, 44 Clark, Beverly Lyon, 112 victims, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, ‘Clerk’s Tale, The,’ 31 15, 16, 40, 50, 52, 132, 166, Cockburn, Claud, 170 199, 212, 239, 240 Codling, Adeline Dean violence by, 13, 15, 16–17, 75, 134, ‘Appeal for Poor Children, An,’ 147 169, 206–7, 240–1 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 8, 111 violence against, 4, 5, 15, 16–17, 22, Christabel, 102 28, 31, 40–2, 44–52, 120, 122, Colonel Jack, 7, 88 123, 169, 184, 206, 233, 240 Comenius, John cult of childhood, 11, 116, 165, 199 Orbis Sensualium Pictus, 72 Index 255

Coming to England, 14, 225, 235–6 Darling, Isabella F. Comus, 55 ‘Shut Out,’ 154 conduct books, 5, 6, 22, 30–3, 71 ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel, The,’ Consolation for Our Grammar 208 Schools, A, 77 Davenant, William Contemplacio, 29–30 Triumphs of the Prince D’Amour, 55 ‘Contrast, A,’ 154, 158 David Copperfield, 9, 122 Cooper, Edward H. David Copperfield, 10, 122 Twentieth Century Child, The, 13 Davin, Anna, 153 Cooper, Susan Dawn of Fear, The, 222 Dawn of Fear, The, 222 Day-Lewis, Cecil Corderius Dialogues Translated ‘Carol, A,’ 196 Grammatically, 74 De la Mare, Walter, 17, 166 Cordier, Mathurin, 74 Dead Fathers Club, 247–8 Corin, Festus Dedalus, Stephen, 202–4 Childe’s First Tutor, The, 71–2 Defoe, Daniel Coriolanus, 39 Colonel Jack, 7, 88 Couch, Julie Nelson, 31 Family Instructor, The, 93 Countess Kate, 120–1, 127 Robinson Crusoe, 7, 87, 92–7, 171 Courtesy, 30–3 Roxana, 7, 88–9 Coveney, Peter, 4, 88, 90, 187 ‘Degenerate “Innocents,” ’ 10, 113–44 Cowley, Abraham, 6, 54–66 DeLillo, Don Loves Riddle, 55, 63 Falling Man, 240 Des Imagistes, 197 ‘Of Myself,’ 54 Dickens, Charles, 3, 9 Poeticall Blossomes, 54–63 Christmas Carol, A, 245 Cowley, Thomas, 56 David Copperfield, 10, 122 Cowper, William Dombey and Son, 117 Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools, Great Expectations, 122–3 112 Little Dorrit, 245–6 Crompton, Richmal, 229 Old Curiosity Shop, The, 117 Just William, 229 Oliver Twist, 10, 118–21, 131–40 cross, symbols of, 27 Sketches by Boz, 141 crossover literature, 107–8 didacticism, 5, 8, 9, 28, 29, 32, 69–70, ‘Crusoe’s Children,’ 7, 87–100 217 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Digby, Kenelm, 63 Night-Time, The, 247 Dionysian child, 3 ‘Dirge of a Child,’ 117 Dahl, Roald, 14, 225, 227–9 Disputation, 28 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 227 Docter Faustus, 79 Danny the Champion of the World, Dodou, Katherina, 14–15 14, 225, 227–9 ‘Examining the Idea of Childhood,’ Fantastic Mr Fox, 227–8 14, 238–49 James and the Giant Peach, 227 Dog so Small, A, 220 Matilda, 227 Dombey, Paul, 117 Daily Mail, 188 Dombey and Son, 117 Daisy Chain, The, 120 Donald, Grace Danny the Champion of the World, 14, ‘Plea, A,’ 152 225, 227–9 Donovan Croft, 223 256 Index

Doom of Youth, 199 Eyre, Frank ‘Door in the Wall, The,’ 12, 182–3, British Children’s Books in the 187–9 Twentieth Century, 226 Doyle, Roddy, 247 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 247 Faerie Queene, The, 65–6 ‘Dream Children,’ 177–9 Fairchild Family, The History of the 120 Dream Days, 11, 166 Falconer, Mary, 65 Dunmore, Helen Fallen Idol, The, 214–15, 220 Mourning Ruby, 245 Falling Man, 240 Family Fictions, 226 Easter, 23 Family from One-End Street, The, 217 Edgeworth, Maria, 95, 111–14 Family Instructor, The, 93 ‘Good Aunt, The,’ 113 Famous and Delectable History of Don ‘Purple Jar, The,’ 8, 111–12 Bellianis of Greece, The, 71, 79 Education Act, 185, 212–13 Fancies’ Theatre, The, 55 Education of Uncle Paul, The, 12, 167, Fane, Francis, 56 169, 173–9 Fane, Lady Rachel, 6, 55–8, 62–3, 65 Edwards, Dorothy Fane, Mary Mildmay, 56 My Naughty Little Sister, 229 Fantastic Mr Fox, 227–8 Einstein, Albert, 199 Father and Son, 166 Eliot, George, 9, 121, 123, 127–8 Ferguson, Frances, 114 Mill on the Floss, The, 121–2, 127 Fiedler, Leslie, 10 Eliot, T. S., 197–201 Fielding, Henry Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Tom Jones, 7, 88, 90–2 10–11 Fifth Child, The, 15, 240, 247 Ellman, Maud Findlay, Alison, 58 ‘Polytropic,’ 204 Fine, Anne Émile, or On Education, 6, 87–9, 92, Granny Project, The, 14, 225, 231–2 171 Finnegans Wake, 199 Empson, William Finucane, Ronald C., 21, 24 Some Versions of Pastoral, 109–10 Fire-Eaters, The, 14, 225, 233–4 English Review, The, 197 First Going to School, 110–13 Enigmatic child, 4 Five Children and It, 166 Enright, Anne Flegel, Monica, 133–4 Gathering, The, 15, 239 Fletcher, Anthony Erasmus, Desiderius, 72 Growing Up in England, 16, 75, 98 n.5 Erewhon, 183 ‘Flower Girl, The,’ 151 Esop’s Fables Translated Grammatically, Foer, Safran 76 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Essays of Elia, 177 244–5 evangelicalism, 8, 10, 134, 136, 146, Food of the Gods, The, 187–90 148, 153, 155 Ford, Ford Madox Evelina: or, The History of a Young English Review, The, 197 Lady’s Entrance into the World, 92 Ford, John, 61 ‘Examining the Idea of Childhood,’ Forster, E. M. 14, 238–49 ‘Celestial Omnibus, The,’ 12, 183, Experiment in Education, An, 217 187, 191–4 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Room with a View, A, 191 244–5 ‘Story of A Panic, The,’ 191 Index 257

Fortunatus, 79 God, 9, 16, 25, 28, 29, 32, 93, 97, Freud, Sigmund, 3, 12–13, 204 105–6, 108, 117, 119, 153, 154, ‘Infantile Sexuality,’ 13 155, 203 Three Essays on the Theory of God of Small Things, The, 239 Sexuality, 13 ‘God’s baby,’ 119 Froggy’s Little Brother, 10, 136, 138 ‘God’s Wild Flowers,’ 154 ‘From “Our alley” to the Green Fields,’ godparents, 23–5, 30 150 Going Back, 222 ‘From the Enchanted Garden to the Goldberg, P. J. P., 21 Steps of my Father’s House,’ 12, golden age, 9, 14, 166, 223 182–94 Golden Age, The, 11, 166 Frost in May, 201 Golding, William Fryar and the Boy, The, 79 Lord of the Flies, 13, 216, 240–1 Furbank, Philip, 191 ‘Good Aunt, The,’ 113 Gosse, Edmund Gainsborough, Thomas, 109 Father and Son, 166 Gallus, Evaldus, 6, 72 Goudge, Elizabeth Pueriles Confabulatiunculae, Little White Horse, The, 218 6, 72 Grahame, Kenneth Galsworthy, John, 197 Dream Days, 11, 166 Gamble, Nikki Golden Age, The, 11, 166 Family Fictions, 226 Wind in the Willows, The, 166, 176–7 Garber, Marjorie, 38, 52 Grange Hill, 223 ‘Garden, The,’ 203 Granny Project, The, 14, 225, 231–2 Garden of God, The, 173 Grass, Günter Garfield, Leon Tin Drum, The, 244 Smith, 221 Grass Rope, A, 219–20 Garlitz, Barbara, 149–50 Gray, Thomas, 90 Garner, Alan Gray’s Inn, 61 Owl Service, The, 221 Great Expectations, 122–3 Stone Book, The, 220–1 Green, Hepzibah, 231 Voice that Thunders, The, 220–1 Greene, Graham Garnett, Eve Basement Room, The, 214–15 Family from One-End Street, Greenhalgh, Suzanne The, 217 Shakespeare and Childhood, 39 Gathering, The, 15, 239 Greenwood, James, 132–3 Gavin, Adrienne E., 4, 11, 12, 81, 166, Seven Curses of London, The, 133 189 Griffin’s Castle, 14, 225, 232–3 ‘Intangible Children,’ 176 gritty realism, 217 ‘Unadulterated Childhood,’ 12, Growing Up in England, 16 165–94 ‘Grown Old Before Their Time,’ General Election, 213, 217 157–8 ‘Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild,’ 106–7 Gunnell, Richard, 61–2 Gentleman, Francis, 49 Ghost of Thomas Kempe, The, 14, 222, Haddon, Mark 225, 234–5 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Glen, Heather, 106, 109 Night-Time, The, 247 Go-Between, The, 13, 215–16, 218, 220, Haig, Matt 242 Dead Fathers Club, 247–8 258 Index

Halpern, Richard, 75 Homes, Dr Barnardo’s, 149–54, 158 Hanawalt, Barbara, 21, 24 Honeyman, Susan, 2, 169, 248 Handbook for Girl Guides, or, How Girls Honyman, John, 62 Can Help Build the Empire, 166 Hoole, Charles, 72, 73 Handful of Dust, A, 205–6 Hope, Anthony, 13 ‘Happy Days in the Country,’ 147, 154 Hornbooks, 70 Hardy, Thomas, 10, 216 Hornby, Nick Jude the Obscure, 10 About a Boy, 246 Harnett, Cynthia, 221 House in Paris, The, 207 Hartley, L. P. ‘How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,’ Go-Between, The, 13, 215–16, 218, 208 220, 242 ‘How the Good Wife Taught Her Havelok the Dane, 5, 31 Daughter,’ 5, 31–2 Hawkins, William ‘How the Wise Man Taught His Son,’ Apollo Shroving, 55 33 heaven, 11, 25, 47, 48, 50, 103, Howard, Charles, 114 116–20, 124, 128, 146, 156, 175, Hudson,W.H. 178, 199 Little Boy Lost, A, 166, 173 Hemans, Felicia Hughes, Richard ‘Dirge of a Child,’ 117 High Wind in Jamaica, A, 13, 206–7 Henderson, Arthur, 185–6 Hulme, Peter, 94 Hermsprong: or, Man as He Is Not, 91–2 Hulme, T. E., 198–9 Herod, 13, 28, 200 Human Age, The, 200 Herrick, Robert, 60 Humphries, Andrew F., 4, 11, 12, 166, Heywood, Thomas, 61 189, 241 Higgenbotham, Jennifer, 57 ‘From the Enchanted Garden to the High Wind in Jamaica, A, 13, 206–7 Steps of my Father’s House,’ 12, Highways and Hedges, 10, 148–9 182–94 Hillel, Margot, 10 Hundred Godly Lessons that a Mother on History of Mr Polly, The, 187 her Death-Bed gave to her Children, History of Prince Erastus Son to the An, 71 Emperour Dioclesian and Those Hurrell, Marian, 147 Famous Philosophers Called the ‘Lassie’s Grief, A,’ 160 Seven Wise Masters of Rome, Huxley, Aldous The,79 Point Counter Point, 205 ‘History of the Incarnation of our Saviour,’ 55 Imperfect Mother, An, 204 History of the Seven Wise Masters of In the Closed Room, 166 Rome, The, 79 Infancy, 22–6 Hocus Pocus Junior, 71 ‘Infancy of Jesus,’ 29 Hoggart, Richard, 183, 185 ‘Infant Poets and Child Players,’ 5–6, Hollindale, Peter, 134–5 54–66 Signs of Childness in Children’s Books, infantia, 4, 22–4, 33 226 ‘Infantile Sexuality,’ 13 Hollm, Jan, 90 Interiority, 11, 15, 17, 199, 200, Holloway, Augustus, 114 247, 248 Homer International Board on Books for Odyssey, 207 Young People (IBBY), 213 ‘Telemachiad,’ 207 International Children’s Library, 213 Index 259

‘Irony and Performance,’ 8 Keating, Peter, 165 ‘Is it All Still There?’, 155 Kemp, Gene Ishiguro, Kazuo Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, The, 223 When We Were Orphans, 247–8 Kempe, Margery, 23 Key, Ellen James, Allison Century of the Child, The, 11, 165 Theorizing Childhood, 238 Kilner, Dorothy, 8, 110–14 James, Henry, 248 First Going to School, 110–13 Turn of the Screw, The, 215 Kim, 166 What Maisie Knew, 10 Kincaid, James, 176 James and the Giant Peach, 227 King and Queen’s Entertainment at Jane Eyre, 10, 121–2 Richmond, 55 Janeway, James King Charles, 56 Token for Children: Being an Exact King Horn, 31 AccountoftheConversion,Holy King John, 5, 39–40, 44–7, 51 and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful King-Smith, Dick, 229–31 Deaths of Several Young Children, Sophie’s Adventures, 229–30 A,6 Sophie’s Snail, 225 Jenks, Chris, 3 Kipling, Rudyard Theorizing Childhood, 238 Just So Stories, 166 ‘Jennings’ series, 222 Kim, 166 Jessica’s First Prayer, 142 Puck of Pook’s Hill, 166 Jesus, 5, 23, 26, 28–9, 106, 150, Rewards and Fairies, 166 153 “‘They”’, 166 J. M. Kirkman, Francis Sports and Pastimes: or, Sport for the Famous and Delectable History of Don City and Pastime for the Bellianis of Greece, The, 71, 79 Country ...Fitted for the Delight History of Prince Erastus Son to the and Recreation of Youth, 71 Emperour Dioclesian and Those Johnson, Claudia Durst, 143 Famous Philosophers Called the Johnson, Samuel, 90 Seven Wise Masters of Rome, Jonson, Ben, 60 The, 79 Chloridia, 55 Unlucky Citizen, The, 78–9 Jordan, Thomas Kline, Daniel T., 4–5, 70 Money is an Ass, 56, 60, 63–4 ‘That child may doon to fadres Poeticall Varieties, 56–63 reverence,’ 5, 21–37 Wealth Out-Witted: or, Money’s an Knowles, Katie, 4–5 Ass, 56, 63–4 Kuhn, Reinhard, 4 Joshi, S. T., 173 Jovial Crew, A, 61 Labour Government, 213, 217 Joyce, James, 13, 197–204 Lamb, Charles Finnegans Wake, 199 ‘Dream Children,’ 177–9 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Essays of Elia, 177 A, 202–5 Lamb, Edel, 4, 6, 61 Work in Progress, 199 ‘Lamb, The,’ 106–7 Jude the Obscure, 10 Land of Spices, The, 201 Julian of Norwich, 23 Lang, Andrew, 166 Just So Stories, 166 Language and Symbolic Power, 33 Just William, 229 Lantern Bearers, The, 221 260 Index

‘Lassie’s Grief, A,’ 160 London Fields, 240 Last Battle, The, 217 loneliness, 10, 235 Lawrence, D. H., 13, 197, 209, 216 Look Back in Anger, 216 ‘Rocking-Horse Winner, The,’ 206 Lord of the Flies, 13, 216, 240–1 Lee, Harper, 248 Lord’s Purse- Bearers, The, 142–4 Legenda aurea, 29 Lost Gip, 10, 138–9 Lehmann, Frau, 208 Love Crowns the End, 55 Lenz, Millicent Love’s Labours Lost, 39 Nuclear Age Literature, 233 Loves Riddle, 55, 63 Lepman, Jella Loy, Mina, 13 Bridge of Children’s Books, A, 213 ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose,’ Leslyn in London, 14, 225, 235 201–2 Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín, 21, 70, 72, Lucky Jim, 216 144 n. 1 Ludus Literarius, 72 Lessing, Doris Luke, Lois, 149 Fifth Child, The, 15, 240, 247 Lumb, F. M. Lewis, C. S. ‘Barnardo Alphabet, The,’ 158–60 Last Battle, The, 217 Lurie, Alison, 248 Lewis, Wyndham, 13, 197–201, 205, Lydgate, John 208 Stans puer ad mensam, 30 ArtofBeingRuled,The,199 Childermass, The, 200 Macbeth, 5, 39–40, 47–52 Doom of Youth, 199 Macbeth on the Estate, 52 Human Age, The, 200 MacDonald, George, 9, 128 Time and Western Man, 199–200 At the Back of the North Wind, Wild Body, The, 198–9 119–20 Library Association of Great Britain, Princess and the Goblin, The, 227 216 Machine Gunners, The, 222 ‘Lights and Shades,’ 152 Mack, Peter, 76 Linguae Latinae Exercitatio, 74 Mackay, Shena ‘Little Black Boy, The,’ 108, 225 Orchard on Fire, The, 15, 239 Little Boy Lost, A, 166, 173 MacNeice, Louis Little Dorrit, 245–6 ‘Prayer Before Birth,’ 209 ‘Little Girl, The,’ 208 Macready, William Charles, 51 ‘Little Match-Seller, The,’ 118, 119, Mansfield, Katherine, 13, 166, 197, 208 124 ‘At Lehmann’s,’ 208 Little Princess, A, 166, 226 ‘At the Bay,’ 208–9 Little White Bird, The, 167, 175–6 ‘Bliss,’ 208 Little White Horse, The, 218 ‘Child-Who-Was-Tired, The,’ 208 Little Women, 120–1 ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel, Lively, Penelope The,’ 208 Ghost of Thomas Kempe, The, 14, ‘How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,’ 222, 225, 234–5 208 Going Back, 222 ‘Little Girl, The,’ 208 Locke, John, 91, 104 ‘Prelude,’ 208, 209 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, ‘Something Childish But Very 6–7, 51, 87, 89, 93 Natural,’ 208 Lockean pedagogy, 96–7 ‘Tiredness of Rosabel, The,’ 208 Lomax, Elaine, 142 ‘Woman at the Store, The,’ 208 Index 261

March, Jo, 120 Money is an Ass, 56, 60, 63–4 March-Russell, Paul Montefiore, Jan, 210 ‘Baby Tuckoo among the Montelion Knight of the Oracle, 79 Grown-Ups,’ 12–13, 196–209 More Men and Mice, 165 Mare, Walter de la Morrison, Toni, 248 Songs of Childhood, 166 Mourning Ruby, 245 Marinetti, Filippo, 201 Moxon, Henry, 156 Marshall, Sybil ‘Nearing Home,’ 150–1 Experiment in Education, An, 217 Mulcaster, Richard Martindale, Adam, 77 Positions Wherein Those Primitive Mary Play, 29–30 Circumstances Be Examined, Masters, Benjamin, 59 Which Are Necessary For the Match sellers, 118, 119, 124, 150–1, Training Up of Children, 73 156 Munro, Lucy Matilda, 227 ‘Infant Poets and Child Players,’ May, Edward, 61 5–6, 54–66 May, Ethel, 120 Munro, Miss, ‘Outcast’s Plea, The,’ 149 Mayhew, Henry, 135 My Naughty Little Sister, 229 Mayne, William Myrc, John, 23–5 Grass Rope, A, 219–20 McEwan, Ian N-Town, 23, 28, 29 Atonement, 14, 239–43, 248–9 Nabbes, Thomas, 59, 60, 61 Cement Garden, The, 14–15, 227, Narnia books, 217 239–44 National Society for the Prevention of Child in Time, The, 14, 239, 243–7 Cruelty to Children, 146 Or Shall We Die?, 239 Natov, Roni Saturday, 240 Poetics of Childhood, The, 14 McGillis, Roderick natural education, 7 ‘Irony and Performance,’ 8, 101–15 natural visionaries, 152 Meade, Robert, 59 ‘Nearing Home,’ 150–1 Measure for Measure, 39 Neo-Romanticism, 12, 166, 174, 214 Mee, Arthur Nesbit, Edith, 225 Children’s Encyclopedia, The, 166 Five Children and It, 166 Metcalf, Eva-Maria Railway Children, The, 166, 226 ‘Changing Status of Children and Story of the Treasure Seekers, The, 166 Children’s Literature, The,’ Treasure Seekers, The, 11, 183 230–1 Wouldbegoods, The, 166 Michell, Esther, 65 New Right, 241, 244 Midnight’s Children, 244 New Robinson Crusoe, The, 92–4 Mildmay, Sir Anthony, 56 New Testament, 28 Mill on the Floss, The, 121–2, 127 New York Times, The, 176 Milman, Helen Newberry, John, 7, 89 ‘What is Love?’, 155 Nichols, Grace Milton, John Leslyn in London, 14, 225, 235 Comus, 55 Night and Day, 10, 148–9 Minister for Children, 238 Nimmo, Jenny Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Griffin’s Castle, 14, 225, 232–3 Knighthood, The, 71 ‘Nobody’s Child,’ 151 misery memoirs, 15 Nodelman, Perry, 93–4 262 Index

Norton, Mary 151, 152, 153, 158, 159, 167, 168, Borrowers, The, 218 169, 172, 173, 176, 183–9, 192–3, Nothing to Nobody, 139–42 197, 202, 207, 214, 220, 225–36, Nuclear Age Literature, 233 240, 241, 246 Nuclear family, 30 Parismus, 79 Parliamentary Education Bill, 185 O’Brien, Kate Parrinder, Patrick, 187 Land of Spices, The, 201 Pater Noster, 23, 24, 27 O’Connor, Marion, 63 pathos, 2, 4, 9, 11, 38, 39, 117, 148, ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from 205 Recollections of Early Childhood,’ Pattison, Robert, 88–91 8, 101–4, 107, 117, 128, 149–50 Pearce, Philippa, 2, 217–20 Odyssey, 207 Dog so Small, A, 220 Oedipal Complex, 204 Tom’s Midnight Garden, 14, 219 ‘Of Myself,’ 54 Pearl, 5, 25–6 Office of Christian Parents, The, 57 Pericles, 39 Official Commission on Childcare, Peter and Wendy, 12, 167–74, 179 245 Peter Pan, 13, 166, 178 Old Curiosity Shop, The, 117 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 167 Oliver Twist, 10, 118–21, 131–40 Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not O’Malley, Andrew, 4, 7 Grow Up, 167 ‘Crusoe’s Children,’ 7, 87–100 Petzold, Dieter, 230 Or Shall We Die?, 239 philanthropy, 10, 133, 134, 140, 142 Orbis Sensualium Pictus, 72 Philips, John, 64 Orchard on Fire, The, 15, 239 Pickering, Samuel, 93 original sin, 6, 24, 91, 144 n. 1 Pied Pipers, 17 Orme, Nicholas, 21, 27 Piesse, A. J., 40 Ornatus, 79 Pigg, Daniel, 23 Osbolston, Lambert, 61 Pilcher, Jane, 244 Osborne, John Pinsent, Pat, 13–14 Look Back in Anger, 216 ‘Post-War Child, The,’ 13, 212–23 otherness, 2, 91, 103, 113 ‘Plea, A,’ 152 ‘Our Fire Baby,’ 156 pleasure, 54, 69–70, 72, 76, 80, 90, 92, Our Lady’s Psalter, 30 124, 127, 157, 184, 206 ‘Outcast’s Plea, The,’ 149 Plimpton MS 258, 27 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 56 Plots of Enlightenment, 87 Owen, Wilfred, 199 Plumb, J. H., 89 Owl Service, The, 221 Poeticall Blossomes, 54–63 Poeticall Varieties, 56–63 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 247 Poetics of Childhood, The, 14 Palmerin of England, 79 Poetry and Prose of William Blake, Papini, Giovanni, 201 The, 106 Parable of the Vineyard, 26 Point Counter Point, 205 parental, 1, 12, 14, 25, 71, 90, 143, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, 159, 165, 183, 184, 193, 197, 226, 202–5 241 Positions Wherein Those Primitive parents, 4, 6, 7, 14, 16, 21, 23, 26, 29, Circumstances Be Examined, Which 30, 51, 56, 57, 78, 87, 89, 93, 94, Are Necessary For the Training Up of 95, 96, 112, 119, 127, 136, 148, Children, 73 Index 263

‘Post-War Child, The,’ 13, 212–23 Room with a View, A, 191 Potter, Jeremy, 41 Rose, Jacqueline, 2, 69–70, 168 Pound, Ezra, 197, 199, 201 Rose, Jonathan, 165 ‘Prayer Before Birth,’ 209 Rosenberg, Marvin, 48 ‘Prelude,’ 208, 209 Rosenblum, Robert, 154 Prelude, The, 105 Rosenthal, Lynne, 233 primers, 6, 27, 28, 70 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 3, 7, 92–3, Princess and the Goblin, The, 227 114, 132, 151 ‘Prioress’s Tale, The,’ 24, 27 Émile, or On Education, 6, 87–9, Prisoner in Fairyland: (The Book That 92, 171 ‘Uncle Paul’ Wrote), A, 174 Roxana, 7, 88–9 Prout, Alan Roy, Arundhati Theorizing Childhood, 238 God of Small Things, The, 239 Puck of Pook’s Hill, 166 Rudd, David, 222 Pueritia, 4, 22–3, 33 Rudolf, Edward de Montjoie, 153 Purkiss, Diane, 74 Rushdie, Salman ‘Purple Jar, The,’ 8, 111–12 Midnight’s Children, 244 Rutter, Carol Chillington Queen Henrietta Maria, 56 Shakespeare and Child’s Play, 39

Rackham, Arthur, 167 Saki, 166, 182–3 Railway Children, The, 166, 226 Salisbury Court, London, 55 Randolph, Thomas, 61 Sanderson, Millie ‘History of the Incarnation of our ‘Our Fire Baby,’ 156 Saviour,’ 55 Sands-O’Connor, Karen Ransome, Arthur ‘Shackled by Past and Parents,’ 14, Swallows and Amazons, 226 225–36 Redemptive child, 4 Sassoon, Siegfried, 199 Reed, Carol Saturday, 240 Fallen Idol, The, 214–15, 220 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Reimer, Mavis, 93–4 216 Report of the Inter-Departmental ‘Savage Generation,’ 241 CommitteeonPhysical ‘Schoolboy, The,’ 112 Deterioration, 185 Scotsman, The, 131–2 ‘Resolution and Independence,’ 102 Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Rewards and Fairies, 166 Instruction in Good Citizenship, 166 Reynolds, Joshua, 109 Sea Change, 217 Richard III, 5, 38–44, 51 Second Earl of Salisbury, 55 Richards, Nathanael, 56 Secret Garden, The, 166, 219 Richardson, Alan, 152 self-presentation, 56–7, 59, 62 Richardson, Dorothy selfhood, 11, 98 n.8, 199, 245 ‘Garden, The,’ 203 Serraillier, Ian Rise and Fall of Childhood, The, 226 Silver Sword, The, 221 Robinson Crusoe, 7, 87, 92–7, 171 Seven Curses of London, The, 133 Robinson der Jüngere, 92–3 sexual abuse, 223 n.1, 239 Robinsonade, 87, 94, 170, 172–3 sexuality / sexualization, 1, 11, 12, 13, ‘Rocking-Horse Winner, The,’ 206 15, 17, 23, 51, 88, 140, 142, 170, ‘Romanticism and Classicism,’ 198 172, 175, 176, 196, 204, 206, 209, Romeo and Juliet, 39 205, 232, 239, 240, 241, 243, 249 264 Index

‘Shackled by Past and Parents,’ 14, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 225–36 6–7, 51, 87, 89, 93 Shahar, Shulamith, 21 Some Versions of Pastoral, 109–10 Shakespeare, William, 4, 5, 104 ‘Something Childish But Very child characters, role of, 38–52 Natural,’ 208 Coriolanus, 39 Sommerville, C. John King John, 5, 39–40, 44–7, 51 Rise and Fall of Childhood, The, 226 Love’s Labours Lost, 39 Songs of Children, 166 Macbeth, 5, 39–40, 47–50, 47–52 Songs of Innocence, 106, 108 Macbeth on the Estate, 52 Songs of Innocence and Experience, 8, Measure for Measure, 39 110 Pericles, 39 Sophie’s Adventures, 229–30 Richard III, 5, 38–44, 51 Sophie’s Snail, 225 Romeo and Juliet, 39 South English Legendary, 30 Tempest, The, 39 Spearman, Edmund, 132 Titus Andronicus, 39 Spenser, Edmund Twelfth Night, 43 Faerie Queene, The, 65–6 Winter’s Tale, The, 39 Sports and Pastimes: or, Sport for the City and Pastime for the Country ... Shakespeare and Childhood, 39 Fitted for the Delight and Recreation Shakespeare and Child’s Play, 39 of Youth, 71 Shapiro, Rebecca, 89 Stacpoole, Henry de Vere Sharpe, J. A., 66 Blue Lagoon, The, 12, 165, 167, Shaughnessy, Robert 169–73, 178–9 Shakespeare and Childhood, 39 Garden of God, The, 173 Shelley: An Essay, 174–5 More Men and Mice, 165 Shepard, Alexandria, 80 Stafford, Sir Northcote, 150, 153 Sherwood, Mary Martha, 120, 127 Stans puer ad mensam, 30 History of the Fairchild Family, The, Steedman, Carolyn, 11 120 Stein, Gertrude, 199–200 Shrewsbury School, 183 Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, ‘Shut Out,’ 154 147–9, 155 Shuttle, The, 166 Sterne, Laurence Sidney, Philip, 70 Tristram Shandy, 91 Apology for Poetry, An, 70 Stone Book, The, 220–1 Signs of Childness in Children’s Books, ‘Story of A Panic, The,’ 191 226 Story of the Treasure Seekers, The, 166 Sillitoe, Alan Streatfeild, Noel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Ballet Shoes, 226 216 Stretton, Hesba, 10 Silver Sword, The, 221 Jessica’s First Prayer, 142 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 5, 25, Lord’s Purse- Bearers, The, 142–4 27–8 Lost Gip, 10, 138–9 Sketches by Boz, 141 Suckling, John, 60 Smith, 221 Summer Will Show, 206 Smith, David, 187 Sutcliff, Rosemary, 217 Smith, Steven, 80 Lantern Bearers, The, 221 Smith, Zadie, 244–5 Sutphin, Christine, 147, 153 White Teeth, 244 Swallows and Amazons, 226 Index 265

‘Tables Turned, The,’ 112 Trouble with Donovan Croft, The, 235 tabula rasa, 6, 104 Trussler, John, 106 Tatham, John Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, The, 223 Love Crowns the End, 55 Turn of the Screw, The, 215 Taylor, Lucy, 153 Twain, Mark, 248 ‘Unheeded,’ 159 Twelfth Night, 43 ‘Telemachiad,’ 207 Twentieth Century Child, The, 13 Tempe Restored, 55 Tyler, Margaret Tempest, The, 39 Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Ten Commandments, 28 Knighthood, The, 71 Terrorist, 240 Tyrell, James, 41 Theorizing Childhood, 238 ‘ “They” ’, 166 ‘Unadulterated Childhood,’ 12, Thiel, Liz 165–94 ‘Degenerate “Innocents”’, 10, ‘Unheeded,’ 153, 159 131–45 Unlucky Citizen, The, 78–9 Thompson, Francis Updike, John Shelley: An Essay, 174–5 Terrorist, 240 Thomson, Shawn, 96 Thomson, Stephen, 213 Vaughan, Virginia Mason, 46 Thornton, Sara, 120 victimization, 10, 15, 16, 166, see also Three Essays on the Theory of child, victims Sexuality, 13 Viking’s Down, 221 Time and Western Man, 199–200 Virgin Mary, 5, 27, 28–30 Time-Cult, 199 Visitors from London, The, 217 Time Machine, The, 190 Vives, Juan Luis, 72 Times Literary Supplement, 170 Linguae Latinae Exercitatio, 74 Tin Drum, The, 244 Voice that Thunders, The, 220–1 ‘Tiredness of Rosabel, The,’ 208 Von Arnim, Elizabeth Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools, 112 Elizabeth and Her German Garden, To the Lighthouse, 204 10–11 Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Warner, Sylvia Townsend Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths Summer Will Show, 206 of Several Young Children, A, 6 Wasp Factory, The, 15, 240 Tom Jones, 7, 8, 90–2 Waugh, Benjamin, 146, 150 Tom’s Midnight Garden, 14, 219 Waugh, Evelyn Tono Bungay, 187 Handful of Dust, A, 205–6 Torr, J. T. Waugh, Patricia, 201 ‘Contrast, A,’ 154, 158 Waves, The, 204–5 Townsend, Aurelian Way of All Flesh, The, 12, 182–6, 194 Tempe Restored, 55 ‘We Are Seven,’ 104–5 Trease, Geoffrey, 217–18 Wealth Out-Witted: or, Money’s an Ass, Treasure Seekers, The, 11, 183 56, 63–4 Treece, Henry Webb, Beatrice, 186 Viking’s Down, 221 Webb, Sidney, 186 Trimmer, Sarah, 95 Webbe, Joseph Tristram Shandy, 91 Children’s Talke: Claused and Drawne Triumphs of the Prince D’Amour, 55 into Lessons, 73 266 Index

Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The, 221 Wood, Naomi Wells, H. G., 166, 186–91, 197 ‘Angelic, Atavistic, Human,’ 9, Ann Veronica, 187 116–30 Anticipations, 189–91 Wool-Pack, The, 221 ‘Door in the Wall, The,’ 12, 182–3, Woolcock, Penny 187–9 Macbeth on the Estate, 52 Food of the Gods, The, 187–90 Woolf, Virginia, 13, 196–8, 208–9, History of Mr Polly, The, 187 248 ‘State Babies,’ 188 To the Lighthouse, 204 Time Machine, The, 190 Waves, The, 204–5 Tono Bungay, 187 Wordsworth, William, 8, 101–6, Welsh, Irvine 109–10, 112, 117, 128, 174 Acid House, The, 247 ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality Wesley, Charles, 106 from Recollections of Early Childhood,’ 8, 101–4, 107, 117, ‘Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild,’ 128, 149–50 106–7 Prelude, The, 105 Westall, Robert ‘Resolution and Independence,’ 102 Machine Gunners, The, 222 ‘Tables Turned, The,’ 112 Westminster School, 55–6, 60–1, 65, ‘We Are Seven,’ 104–5 113 Work in Progress, 199 ‘What is Love?,’ 155 World War I, 12–13, 170, 173, 176, What Maisie Knew, 10 196, 200, 218 When We Were Orphans, 247–8 World War II, 13, 212–23, 230, 231, White, Antonia 242 Frost in May, 201 Wortley, Margaret, 65 White Teeth, 244 Wouldbegoods, The, 166 Whitsuntide, 23 Wild Body, The, 198–9 Yonge, Charlotte, 9, 120–8 Williams, John, 61 Countess Kate, 120–1, 127 Wind in the Willows, The, 166, 176–7 Daisy Chain, The, 135 Winter’s Tale, The, 39 Young Helpers’ League Magazine, 10, Wit’s Interpreter, 71 147, 148 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 8, 111 ‘Woman at the Store, The,’ 208 Zunshine, Lisa, 92