Christ's Hospital
The most famous of the Blue‐Coat or charity schools, was founded in London under a charter of Edward VI as a school for poor children, in buildings that before the ...
TODD, H. E. (1908–88) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...TODD, H. E. ( Herbert Eatton ) ( 1908–88 ) Creator of Bobby Brewster . He was born in London and educated at Christ’s Hospital before beginning a long career as a businessman. His first Brewster book was Bobby Brewster and the Winkers’ Club ( 1949...
LAMB, Charles (1775–1834) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
... ( 1775–1834 ) and Mary (Anne) ( 1764–1847 ) Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a number of books for children, of which the most celebrated was their adaptation of Shakespeare for young readers. Their father was a London lawyer’s clerk. Charles went to school at Christ’s Hospital, where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He then took a clerkship at East India House in London where he remained for the next thirty years. His family was poor, the chief income being Charles’s wages and what Mary could earn by needlework; the strain on her...
At the Back of the North Wind Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...voice than anything else in the world’, and he is happiest when ‘nestling close to her grand bosom’. Diamond himself, like characters in other MacDonald novels, is a Christ-like child who has a sweetness of manner which leads many people to regard him as ‘not quite right in the head’. At the Back of the North Wind includes the short fairy story ‘Little Daylight’, told to the children in hospital by Mr Raymond, which has sometimes been reprinted separately. Among the poems Diamond recites to his baby brother is ‘Where did you come from, baby dear?’, which has...
Italy Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
...family, Mantua, c.1472–1474 , and in the image of Federigo da Montefeltro reading to his son, Urbino, c.1477 ). New ideas on the nature and needs of childhood were developed in other contexts, too. In Florence, changing social and moral attitudes produced the first foundling hospital in the world, the Spedale degli Innocenti (also the first great example of Renaissance architecture, by Brunelleschi , 1419–1424 ). On the facade, the roundels containing beautiful ceramic babies by Andrea della Robbia contribute— along with the word “Innocents”—to the...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...poll in Edward Salmon’s Juvenile Literature As It Is ( 1888 ). During his lifetime Dodgson retained control of all aspects of publication, and sometimes called in copies which did not come up to his very high standard of printing. These were then often presented by him to hospitals or other charitable institutions. A ‘People’s Edition’, revised and reset, was issued by Macmillan in December 1887 , and included as a postscript ‘An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice” ’, first printed privately for Dodgson to distribute to child friends and then...
