During the nineteenth century, literacy flourished throughout the Western world. In the second half of the century, with shorter working hours for the working class and the push for compulsory education of children, a mass readership emerged as men, women, and children with newfound leisure time devoured newspapers, magazines, and novels. As greate...

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Date range of documents: 1685-1921.

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