A collection of essays based on the [1999] Children's Books History Society study conference, this collection of essays analyses the children's literature of th

Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentio

The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particu

Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the ni

In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists acr