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Victorian Childhood and literature

Victorian Childhood and literature. By Paul Hanna, Joe Pappalardo, and Nick Schlueter. General Rules for Children. Never talk back to older people, especially to your mother and father. Never whine or frown when spoken to by your elders. Never argue with your elders  they know best.

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Victorian Childhood and literature

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  1. Victorian Childhood and literature By Paul Hanna, Joe Pappalardo, and Nick Schlueter

  2. General Rules for Children • Never talk back to older people, especially to your mother and father. • Never whine or frown when spoken to by your elders. • Never argue with your elders  they know best. • Never do anything that is forbidden by your elders. • Do as you're told in a pleasant and willing way. • Never contradict any one under any circumstances. It is very impolite. • Always greet members of your family when entering a room. • Always bid goodbye to members of your family when you leave a room. • Always rise to a standing position when visitors enter. • Never address a visitor until he has started the conversation.

  3. Disparity between classes

  4. Children’s life in the City • Dirty, disease filled

  5. Life on the Streets • Consisted of orphans and runaways • Living conditions were horrible • Many died

  6. Life in the Country

  7. Life in orphanages • Boys were taught a trade and girls were trained to be maids • Horrible conditions many times children preferred lives of crime • Were always full

  8. SCHOOLS • Every 6 square miles or safe walking distance for children

  9. Ragged Schools • The first form of public schools in England. • Attempted to provide an education for the poor.

  10. Nursery Rhymes • Soothed children to sleep • were called “songs or ditties” • Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book published by Mary Cooper in 1744 • Other lists of nursery rhymes include, The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story Book by S. Crowder and Benjamin Collins and Mother Goose's Melody; or Sonnets for the Cradleby John Newbery.

  11. Fables • Usually consisted of stories that involved talking beasts and mythical animals • Gave morals lessons to kids • Most famous was Aesop’s Fables which was originally created for adults • Was read a lot in school

  12. Fairy tales • The majority of Fairy Tales that are known today are actually French (Little Red Riding-Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, in the Wood, The Master Cat; or Puss in Boots, Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper) • French Fairy Tales were for kids English ones were for adults • French fairy tales were attacked by evangelicals for inciting bad ideals in Children • An English Fairy Tale would be Tom Thumb and the Seven Champions.

  13. Limericks • Poems • Written to provide humor for children • Most famous was Edward Lear's Nonsense verses. • The Story of the Seven Families from Lake Pipple-popplewritten in 1865 • Example: There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!

  14. Adventure novel • Biggest examples of this genre would be Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson , and The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... Written by Himself by Daniel Defoe.

  15. Boarding School Novel • Also called School Stories, they followed a child in a romanticized ideal of school • The stories emphasized the virtues of bravery, decency of character and honor, and in fact some early examples were intended as morally instructional works • Examples of which include Tom Brown’s Schooldays

  16. Cautionary Tales • Stories that were used to scare Children in to behaving well • An example would be Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc

  17. Lewis Carroll • Born January 27, 1832 as Charles Dodgson • Was educated at Oxford • Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there

  18. J.M. Barrie • Wrote Peter Pan • Story was inspired by Peter Llewellyn Davies of Kensington Park. • The boys father had just died and Barrie used Never-Land to ease his pain.

  19. Charles Kingsley • Born July 12, 1819 • Anti-Catholicism major theme in writing and social injustice • Wrote The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children in 1856 • A series of stories about ancient heroes and there feats

  20. Rudyard Kipling • Born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India • Wrote TheJungle Books

  21. Andrew Lang • Born in Selkirk, Scotland on March 31 1844 • Known for poetry • Wrote the Fairy Book Series

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