American children through their books, 1700-1835
The status of American children at the beginning of the eighteenth century was so insignificant that writers apologized for wasting their talents on the subject and physicians seldom condescended to prescribe for them. the Changing attitude toward the child since then, however, can be classed as one...
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Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1948.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword / Canfield Fisher, Dorothy
- Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Mental Pabulum of Godly Children
- War with the Devil
- The Art of Decent Behaviour
- Learning of Diverse Sorts
- Young Victims of Kitchen Physick
- Snares of the Old Deluder
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Index.