Children's literature : an anthology, 1801-1902 / edited by Peter Hunt.

List of Plates. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849): From Early Lessons (1801). Ann Taylor (1782-1866), Jane Taylor (1783-1824) and Adelaide O'Keeffe (?1776-1855): Original Poems for Infant Minds (two volumes: 1804, 1805). 'Morning'. 'Never Play with Fire'. 'My Mother'. 'The Pin'. Rhymes from the Nursery (1806). 'The Star'. 'Poor Children'. 'The Little Husbandman'. William Roscoe (1753-1831): From The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807). Elizabeth Turner (1775?-1846): From The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories, in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children From Four to Eight Years Old (1807). 'The Canary'. 'Dangerous Sport'. Barbara (Wreaks) Hofland (1770-1844): From The History of an Officer's Widow, and Her Young Family (1809). Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851): From The History of the Fairchild Family or, the Child's Manual: Being a Collection of Stories Calculated to Shew the Importance and Effects of a Religious Education (1818). Alicia Catherine Mant (?1788-1869): from The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822). Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863): 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1823). Mary [Botham] Howitt (1799-1888): From The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir (1829). 'The Spider and the Fly'. Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879): From Poems for Our Children (1830). 'Mary's Lamb'. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867): From Home (1835). Jacob Abbott (1803-79): From A Little Scholar Learning to Talk (1835). From Rollo at Work (1837). James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860): From A Christmas Gift from Fairyland'. From 'Florella, or the Fairy of the Rainbow' (1838). Catherine Sinclair (1800-64): From Holiday House (1839). Charlotte Barton (1797-1862): From A Mother's Offering to her Children: by a Lady, Long Resident in New South Wales (1841). Harriet Mozley (1803-1851): From The Fairy Bower, or The History of a Month. A Tale (1841). Robert Browning (1812-89): From Dramatic Lyrics (1842). 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'. Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860): From New Nursery Songs for all Good Children (1843). 'Three Little Kittens'. 'William Churne of Staffordshire' (Revd. Francis Edward Paget (1806-1882)): From The Hope of the Katzekopfs (1844). Richard Henry (Hengist) Horne (1802-1884): From Memoirs of a London Doll (Written by Herself; Edited by Mrs Fairstar) (1846). Edward Lear (1812-88): From A Book of Nonsense (by Derry Down Derry) (1846, 1861): 'The Jumblies' from Nonsense Songs, Botany, and Alphabets (1871). Captain (Frederick) Marryat (1792-1848): From The Children of the New Forest (1847). John Ruskin (1819-1900): From The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers. A Legend of Stiria (1851). Catherine Parr (Strickland) Traill (1802-99): From Canadian Crusoes, A Tale of Rice Lake Plains (1852). Mary Louisa Charlesworth (1819-80): From Ministering Children (1854). 'Oliver Optic' (William Taylor Adams (1822-97)): From The Boat Club, or the Bunkers of Rippleton (1855). William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863): From The Rose and the Ring, Or The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children (1855). Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892): From The Last of the Huggermuggers, a Giant Story (1855 (dated 1856)). Charlotte M(ary) Yonge (1823-1901). From The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations. A Family Chronicle (1856). A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England) (Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-93)): From The Rambles of a Rat (1857). Thomas Hughes (1822-96) : from Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857). Frances Browne (1816-97): From Granny's Wonderful Chair and its Tales of Fairy Times (1857). R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne (1825-94): From The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858). Frederick W(illiam) Farrar (1831-1903): From Eric; or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School (1858). Samuel G(riswold) Goodrich (1793-1860): From Peter Parley's Tales of the Sea (1860). Charles Kingsley (1819-75): From The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (1863). William (Still) Stitt Jenkins (?-?): The Lost Children (1864). Mary (Elizabeth) Mapes Dodge (1831-1905): From Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865). 'Hesba Stretton' (Sarah Smith (1832-1911)): From Jessica's First Prayer (1867). Martha Farquharson Finley (1828-1909): From Elsie Dinsmore (1867). John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916): 'Darius Green and his Flying Machine' (1867). Louisa May Alcott (1832-88): From Little Women (1868). Charles Dickens (1812-1870): From A Holiday Romance (1868). Horatio Alger Jr (1832-99): From Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (1868). Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907): The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). Jean Ingelow (1820-97): From Mopsa the Fairy (1869). Mary Anne, Lady Barker (1831-1911): From Boys - (1874). Thomas March Clark (1812-1903): From John Whopper the Newsboy (1870). 'Lewis Carroll' (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98)): From Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). 'Susan Coolidge' (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1845-1905)): From What Katy Did (1872). George MacDonald (1824-1905): From The Princess and the Goblin (1871 (dated 1872)). Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830-94): From Speaking Likenesses (1874). J(ohn) H(oward) Clark (1830-78): Bertie and the Bullfrogs: An Australian Story for Big and Little Children (1874). 'Mark Twain' (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)): From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Anna Sewell (1820-78): From Black Beauty, His Grooms and Companions; The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine (1877). Mary Louisa (Stewart) Molesworth (1839-1921): From The Cuckoo Clock (1877). Talbot Baines Reed (1852-93): From The Boy's Own Paper, Volume 1, Number 1. 'My First Football Match' by an Old Boy (Saturday, January 18th, 1879). William M(akepeace) Thayer (1820-98): From Log Cabin to White House: The Story of President Garfield's Life (1880). Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908): From Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1880 (dated 1881)). James Otis (Kaler) (1848-1912): From Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881). Margaret Sidney (Harriett M(ulford) (Stone) Lothrop (1844-1924)): From Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (1881). (John) Richard Jefferies (1848-87): From Wood Magic, a Fable (1881). G(eorge) A(lfred) Henty (1832-1902): From Winning His Spurs. A Tale of the Crusades (1882). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): From Treasure Island (1883). Juliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing (1841-1885): From Jackanapes (1883). Edward Eggleston (1837-1902): From The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883). G(eorge) W(ilbur). Peck (1840-1916): From Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa (1883). Laura E(lizabeth) (Howe) Richards (1850-1943): From The Joyous Story of Toto (1885). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94): From A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). 'Whole Duty of Children'. 'Rain'. 'Where Go the Boats'. 'System'. 'Good and Bad Children'. 'The Lamplighter'. 'The Cow'. 'Happy Thought'. Lucretia P(eabody) Hale (1820-1900): From The Peterkin Papers (1880). Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924): Editha's Burglar (1888). Frank R(ichard) Stockton (1834-1902): From The Bee-man of Orn (1887). Palmer Cox (1840-1924): From The Brownies: Their Book (1887). Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): From The Happy Prince (1888). 'The Selfish Giant'. Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922): From Two Little Confederates (1888). E(dward) B. Kennedy (?-?): From Blacks and Bushrangers: Adventures in Queensland (1889). Eugene Field (1850-1895): From A Little Book of Western Verse (1889). 'Wynken, Blynken and Nod'. Andrew Lang (1844-1912): From Prince Prigio (1889). J(ames) Macdonald Oxley (1855-1907): From Up Among the Ice Floes (1890). Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): From Our Exploits at West Poley (1892-3). (Margaret) Marshall Saunders (1861-1947): From Beautiful Joe, The Autobiography of a Dog (1894). Ethel S(ybil) Turner (1872-1958): From Seven Little Australians (1894). (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): From The Jungle Book (1894). From 'Kaa's Hunting'. G(eorge) E(dward) Farrow (1862-?1920): From The Wallypug of Why (1895). Bertha Upton (1849-1912) (Illustrated by Florence K. Upton (1873-1922)): From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg" (1895). Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1913): From The Little Colonel (1896). S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett (1860-1914): From The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion ...With Those of General Napoleon Smith. An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys and Tom-Boys (1897). Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937): From The Arkansas Bear, a Tale of Fanciful Adventure told in Song and Story (1898). J(ohn) Meade Falkner (1858-1932): From Moonfleet (1898). Ernest (Evan) Thompson Seton (1860-1946): From Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). From 'The Springfield Fox'. Ethel Pedley (?1860-98): From Dot and the Kangaroo (1899). (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1805-1936): From Stalky and Co (1899). From 'The Moral Reformers'. E(dith) Nesbit (1858-1924): Fom The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899). 'Lord Tottenham'. L(man)Frank Baum (1856-1919): From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). L'Envoi. (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): From Just-So Stories (1902). Select Bibliography. Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines.