Children's Literature

para. 1: “Mary Wollstonecraft’s literary career in the last two decades of the eighteenth century coincides with the emergence and rapid expansion and diversification of a children’s text industry in Britain. There had certainly been books produced for children in previous periods: hornbooks and battledores for learning the alphabet, Puritan-penned accounts of the deaths of godly children such as James Janeway’s A Token for Children (1673), advice and conduct books for the young of the well-to-do entering the social world are but a few examples.”