Blatantly Bookish | Victorian Children's Literature and The Water Babies @BlatantlyBookish | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
In which I discuss late Victorian children's literature... especially The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.
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Books Mentioned:
-The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
-Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
-Peter Pan by J.M. Barry

The Water Babies on Project Gutenberg: gutenberg.org/files/25564/25564-h/25564-h.htm

Interesting links about Late Victorian/ Edwardian children's literature that I found while making this video:
-"The Golden Age of Children's Literature" - youtube.com/watch?v=g-Hmfkve3pQ&ab_channel=OxfordAcademic%28OxfordUniversityPress%29
-The Child as Innocent: victorianweb.org/genre/childlit/childhood1.html
-The Child as Sinful: victorianweb.org/genre/childlit/childhood2.html
-The Victorian Child: https://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/victorian.htm
-Orphans in Fiction by John Mullan: bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/orphans-in-fiction
-Morality in Children's Literature: bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/moral-and-instructive-childrens-literature
-Perceptions of Childhood: bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/perceptions-of-childhood

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