General
Banerjee, Jacqueline. Through the Northern Gate: childhood and growing up in British fiction, 1719-1901. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
Bratton, J.S. The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction. London: Croom Helm; New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981.
Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard, ed. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Darton, F.J. Harvey. Children's Books in England: five centuries of social life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Demers, Patricia, ed. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850. Canada: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Green, Roger Lancelyn. Tellers of Tales: children's books and their authors from 1800 to 1964. London: Edmund Ward, 1965.
Hunt, Peter, ed. Children's Literature: An Illustrated History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Jan, Isabelle. On Children's Literature. Ed. Catherine Storr. London: Allen Lane, 1973.
Khorana, Meena, ed. British Children's Writers, 1800-1880. Detroit, Gale Research, 1996.
Marks, Sylvia Kasey. Writing for the Rising Generation: British Fiction for Young People, 1672-1839. Victoria, BC: Univ. of Victoria, 2003.
Tucker, Nicholas. The Child and the Book: A Psychological and Literary Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981.
Zipes, Jack, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 4 volumes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Children in Society
Cunningham, Hugh. The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood Since the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Jordan, Thomas E. Victorian childhood: themes and variations. Albany: Statue University of New York Press, 1987.
Kincaid, James. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.
MacGavran, James Holt Jr., ed. Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. Athens and London: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1991.
Plotz, Judith. Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Evangelical Tracts
Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Religious Writing for Children. Wormley, Herts: Five Owls Press, 1979.
Demers, Patricia. Heaven upon Earth: the form of moral and religious children's literature, to 1850. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
Pickering, Samuel F. Moral Instruction and fiction for children, 1749-1820. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
Vallone, Lynn. "A humble spirit under correction." The Lion and the Unicorn. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Vol. 15, 1991. 72-95.
Fantasy
Briggs, Katherine. Fairies in the English Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge, 1967.
Carpenter, Humphrey. Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the -Pooh. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995.
Cosslett, Tess. Talking Animals in British Fiction, 1786-1914. Aldershot, Hamps: Ashgate, 2006.
Goldthwaite, John. The natural history of make-believe: a guide to the principal works of Britain, Europe, and America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Knoepflmacher, U. C. "The Balancing of Child and Adult: An Approach to Victorian Fantasies of Children." Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 37 (4): 497-530.
Knoepflmacher, U.C. Ventures into childland: Victorians, fairy tales, and feminity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Lewis, C. S. "On Juvenile Tastes" (1958). Rept. in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories. Ed. Walter Hooper. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1975. 39-41.
Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1984.
Sandner, David. The fantastic sublime: romanticism and transcendence in nineteenth-century children's fantasy literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Schlobin, Roger C. ed. The Aesthetics of fantasy literature and art. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982.
Summerfield, Geoffrey. Fantasy and Reason: Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century. London: Methuen, 1984.
Tolkien, J. R. R. "Tree and Leaf" in "Tree and Leaf." "Smith of Wooton Major." "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth." London: Unwin, 1975. 7-102.
Westfahl, Gary and George Slusser. Nursery realms: children in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Athens: University of Greece, 1999.
Wullschlager, Jackie. Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A. A. Milne. London: Methuen, 1995.
Boy's Reading
Dunae, Patrick A. "Boys' Literature and the Idea of Empire." Victorian Studies. 24 (1): 105-21.
Robson, Catherine. Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemen. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Girl's Reading
Gorham, Deborah. The Victorian Girland the Feminine Ideal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Jordan, Ellen. "Making Good Wives and Mothers: The Transformation of Middle-Class Girls' Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain." History of Education Quarterly. Vol.21, No.4.
Reynolds, Kimberley. Girls Only? Gender and Popular Children's Fiction in Britain, 1880-1910. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Rowbotham, Judith. Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction. Oxford and New York: B. Blackwell, 1989.
Yonge, Charlotte. "Authorship." A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. London: The Cresset Press, 1965.
Nursery Rhymes
Opie, Iona and Peter, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.
Magazines and Popular Reading
Drotner, Kristin. English Children and their Magazines, 1751-1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.
Haining, Peter, ed. The Penny Dreadful. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1976.
Hannabuss, C. Stuard. "Nineteenth-century Religious Periodicals for Children." British Journal of Religious Education. Vol. 6, No. 1, (1983), p. 20-40.
Neuburg, Victor E. The Penny Histories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969.
Springhall, John. "Disseminating Impure Literature": The 'Penny Dreadful' Publishing Business Since 1860." Economic History Review: New Series, Vol. 47, No. 3, (Aug., 1994), p. 567-584.
Illustrated Children's Books
McLean, Ruari. Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. 2nd edition. [London]: Faber & Faber, [1972].
Holme, Bryan. The Kate Greenaway Book. New York: The Viking Press, 1976.
Muir, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
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