Unlike their other children's books, however, this one failed utterly. No second edition was called for.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
133
It seems that the satire was too strong, or the revolutionary moment too close for turning the...
Literary responses
Jane Johnson
Evelyn Arizpe
, Morag Styles
, and Shirley Brice Heath
have commended JJ
for her insight that learning to read requires frivolity, storytelling and diversion as well as diligence, rigour and repetition.
Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.
92
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Literary responses
Lucy Aikin
The Critical Review, considering it with three other children's books from the same publisher, called LA
's work very happily selected.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 34 (1802): 111
Lissa Paul
has pointed out that it was...
Literary responses
Eliza Fenwick
This, together with Presents for Good Girls and Presents for Good Boys, was reviewed in Sarah Trimmer
's The Guardian of Education in 1804. Scholar Lissa Paul
believes that EF
succeeded better than almost...
Literary responses
Eliza Fenwick
Scholar Lissa Paul
argues that the advertising element has denied this book due consideration by critics of early writing for children.
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick—Forgotten in Histories of Schooling”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford, 5 Jan. 2006.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
The precipitating event that caused EF
to leave Canada and head back south to the United States was, writes Lissa Paul
, Mackenzie's Rebellion, an episode in Canadian history that began on 5 December 1837....
Reception
Eliza Fenwick
Annie F. Wedd
, in editing EF
's letters to Hays, shows little sympathy with her predicament and accuses her of inconstancy of purpose and of whining, but also notes her endless optimism and resilience....
Reception
Grace Nichols
Lissa Paul
has discussed her poetry for the young in a collection entitled Girls, Boys, Books,Toys: gender in children's literature and culture, edited by Beverly Lyon Clark
and Margaret R. Higgonet
in 1999.
Textual Features
Eliza Fenwick
Iona
and Peter Opie
called this the most important collection of verse for children of the early nineteenth century. Lissa Paul
judges that it holds an important place in the history of the genre. It...
Textual Features
Mary Wollstonecraft
MW
structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...
Textual Features
Ann Taylor Gilbert
The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is...
Textual Production
Eliza Fenwick
Lissa Paul
has established that EF
was writing during her time in North America (working on short stories as well as a novel, apart from her constant letter-writing), but none of these texts appears to...
Textual Production
Eliza Fenwick
EF
's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to...
Textual Production
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Early in her career SSW
also published instructional books for children (though the generic boundary between these and story-books is by no means clear; Lissa Paul
calls these teaching narratives realistic fiction).
Paul, in...
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Texts
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, 2011, pp. 98-112.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840): Abolitionist in England, Slave–Owner in Barbados and Teacher in Niagara.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick—Forgotten in Histories of Schooling”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford.
Paul, Lissa. Email to Isobel Grundy about Dorothy Wordsworth and Eliza Fenwick.
Paul, Lissa. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Fenwick.
Paul, Lissa. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Fenwick.
Paul, Lissa. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Eliza Fenwick.
Paul, Lissa. “Re-Imagining Eliza Fenwick: Instruction, Delight and Marketing”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 3, 2006, pp. 427-43.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
