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| Title | Lessons for children, Parts I & II (cover) |
| Author | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin) |
| Publisher | Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Hunter, R.
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| Publisher Location | England -- London |
| Publication Date | 1815 |
| Printer | Bensley, T. (London)
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| Notes | Unillustrated.
Short stories that teach children such things as the months, animals, colors, and numbers. The stories also address issues of responsibility and behavior, death and morality, but without numerous references to God as was common in most readers at this time. |
| Contextual Notes | Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld was born in 1743 into a Presbyterian Dissenting family (dissenting against the Church of England). She was barred from entering England's better schools and universities because of the family's beliefs, but her father taught at Warrington Academy for boys where Anna was allowed to attend classes with her brother. When unable to find suitable teaching material to educate her nephew and adopted son, Charles, she wrote the four volumes of Lessons for Children, designed for children as young as two years old. The books were remarkable at their time because they were not religious and they included stories about familiar situations discussed in simple dialogues, a method called "chit-chat." The books were printed in large type with wide margins making them "reader-friendly." The books are intended for the use of a mother and her child learning to read. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Children's stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature; Readers (Primary); |
| Category | Readers
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0253 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | 4 p., 5-59 leaves, 60-65 p., 1-96 p.: illustrated; 10 x 9 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 5.10 |
