Strickland’s The Moss-House: A Tale (1822); Sarah Lee’s Playing at Settlers (1854).
6 6 See the forthcoming collection of essays from Children’s Literature Association’s Centennial Studies Series on The Brownies’ Book by Dianne Johnson-Feelings and Jonda C. McNair, as well as the special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn 43 (2) (April 2019) edited by Katharine Capshaw and Michelle H. Martin.
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6 Developments in Fiction for Children
Mary Jeanette Moran
The era between 1900 and 1970 represented a transitional period for English-language children’s literature, albeit one with a wide variety of internal developments and milestones. This period bridges nineteenth-century attempts to acknowledge, conceptualize, and respond to the desires and interests of a child audience – attempts that helped bring about the first “Golden Age” of literature for young people – and the post-1970 dramatic increase in the political, social, and critical engagement of children’s literature. Granting respect to children as an audience eventually led creators and critics within the field to realize the need for a more complex and dynamic understanding of the interactions