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A collection of essays based on the Children's Books History Society study conference marking the bicentenary of the Religious Tract Society and the Lutterworth Press. The book analyses the children's literature it produced, charting the development of the genre from the evangelical tract through to the popular school story, spanning the period from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It shows how publishing worked within the context of a missionary society with a global reach. The book details the nature and development of the tract genre both in Britain and America, before looking at the range of RTS and Lutterworth output of children's titles, including its movement into magazine publishing. The work studies the two great magazines for which the RTS and Lutterworth were known to generations of children, the Boy's Own Paper and the Girl's Own Paper, as well as other magazines, such The Child's Companion. There are also chapters on popular tracts, such as The Dairyman's Daughter, and successful authors, from Hesba Stretton and Mrs Walton to W.E. Johns and Laura Ingalls Wilder. These essays explore how, in order to reflect an increasingly secular age, the subject matter widened, providing more non-fiction in its periodicals as well as an increasingly broad range of fiction, mostly secular in nature. It was also necessary for the Society to alter its didactically religious tone in order to present its Christian values with more subtlety. With chapters on subjects as diverse as American religious tracts, boy's school stories, secular publishing for girls and the presentation of gender roles, this collection is a major contribution to publishing history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors include Brian Alderson, Mary Cadogan, Aileen Fyfe and Anne Thwaite.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Introduction; A Short History of Religious Tract Society (Aileen Fyfe); What is a Tract? (Ann Thwaite); The Golden Thread: Some Early Tract Writers (Dee Carter); The Dairyman's Daughter: From Yesterday to Today (Alexander N. Leach); American Religious Tracts and Children's Spirituality (Vivia Lawton Fowler); The Child's Companion and Our Little Dots (Michael Rupert Taylor); 'A gifted author'- Hesba Stretton and the Religious Tract Society (Suzanne Rickard); The Search for Mre Walton and her World (Morna Daniels); Quicquid agunt pueri nostril farrago libelli ( Whatever boys do is the subject of our little book): The Boy's Own Paper 1879-1967 (Dennis Butts); Different Schools of Thought- Other Stories for Boys ( Robert J. Kirkpatrick); The Girls' Own Paper (1880-1965) and The New Woman (Mary Cadogan); Twenthieth-century Secular Publishing for Girls (Hilary Clare and Sue Sims); The Lutterworth Bicentenary: The Publisher's View (Adrian Brink); Postlude: The University Tracts (Brian Alderson); A Sampling of Children's Works Related to or Published by the Religious Tract Society, 1795-1943; Envoi; Notes on Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index.
