Children in Brit Lit

New Woman Commentary:

         I have never had a rush of excitement fill my breast and soul so quickly! I received one of the many newspapers I receive throughout the week, Reynold’s Newspaper which is my favorite,…

         New Woman Commentary:

I was looking through some old boxes in the attic, due to my family and I recently unpacking from our move, and found one previously sealed by my mother. She used to always keep such…

New Woman Commentary:

I keep rifling through the parcel to find a page from my favorite play in the entire world: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. A perfect edition for my scrapbook and seeing the worn pages…

Lucy’s Commentary:

    Oh, I love this page so much! It was passed down to me from my late mother, I loved her so dearly, she was gone too soon. This page gives me all the advice I could ever need on how to raise my two boys and how to treat my guest. Like I said before, I lost my mother at a very young age so I don’t have her to lean on now that I myself am a mother. I try my best but raising two boys can be quite difficult. My sister Gertrude tries to help as much as possible but she is not the best at handling kids, she  is not the most affectionate person.…

Gertrude’s commentary: Here is a picture I captured of Lord Taylor and his late daughter Lily. This picture is one of my favorites for numerous reasons. For one, Lord Taylor reminds me of my father. The way he talked about Lily with such grande eyes is the same way my father would talk about one of his own  — oh how I miss him dearly. Aside from that, I think this is one of my best photographs yet and how could I forget Lord Taylor was the dearest of customers so to speak. We discussed a plethora of topics during our session. In fact, he expressed how the town needed a change of pace…

As a mother, I was very saddened when I saw this in the paper. The images and headlines speak for themselves. How are so many people okay with children dying in factories and leaving children with strangers? I could not imagine my child being put into such dangerous situations. I keep hearing about the terrible conditions adults work in, and I can’t imagine it would be any better for these children. The articles definitely don’t make it seem like they are. Clearly, the people in charge of businesses and factories have no regard for their employees’ safety, since they’re responsible for…

Louisa May Alcott was a successful American novelist during the 19th century. While Alcott penned many stories during her career, she is most fondly remembered for her novel Little Women (1868, 1869), which tells the story of the four March sisters as they come of age in Concord, Massachusetts during the Civil War. The tale of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March has become an American classic.  Little Women is so distinctive and beloved because Alcott takes a romanticized view of childhood and combines it with the complex realities of life to create an emotional, entertaining, and…

Animals commonly appear in entertaining and didactic texts alike. Although many of these stories focus on anthropomorphic creatures as the main characters, there are also often smaller, less noticeable animals appearing in the backgrounds of illustrations or as secondary characters. As children’s literature shifted from being didactic to entertaining, a change also appeared in the purpose of these smaller figures, sometimes not mentioned in the text at all. In entertaining texts that include lessons, such as Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit (1902), secondary animals often…