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lengthy study (200,000 words), fully researched over many
years, of William Wordsworth's ideas about education and
schooling (which he considered by no means the same thing).
Includes detailed biographies of his three surviving children
with accounts their upbringing. |
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on Wordsworth and Education |
The picture shown 'The School Mistress' Francis Wheatley 1791 (Based on Shenstone's poem), reproduced with kind permission of the Courtauld Institute.
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personal account of childhood reading in 1943. One title
by each of four favourite authors is described:
Rudyard Kipling (Puck of Pook's Hill), Grace James (John
and Mary's Visitors), M.E. Atkinson (Crusoe Island), David
Severn (Rick Afire!). Includes biographies of the writers
and appraisals of their illustrators with brief biographies..
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| We are
pleased to have the opportunity of publishing this unusual
novel by Georgina Skelt which exploits the Juvenile Drama,
19C 'Penny Plain & Twopence Coloured', toy theatre
melodrama for its emotional and scenic backcloth. |
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on Children in the Wood |
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