Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780810393554
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0810393557
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 160
Content:
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - Richard Armstrong (1903-) - Wilbert Vere Awdry (1911-) - Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - Kitty Barne (1883?-1957?) -- Pauline Baynes (1922-) - Margery Williams Bianco (1881-1944) - Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) - Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) - Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) - Rose Fyleman (1877-1957) - Eve Garnett (1900-1991) - J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) - Kathleen Hale (1898-) - Captain W. E. Johns (1893-1968) - C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) - Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - Patricia Lynch (1898-1972) - Bessie Marchant (1862-1941) - John Masefield (1878-1967) - A. A. Milne (1882-19560 - Naomi Margaret (Haldane) Mitchison (1897-) - Mary Norton (1903-1992) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968) - Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - (Leonard Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) - Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976) - Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) - Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976) - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - P.L. (Pamela Lyndon) Travers (1899-) - Henry Treece (1911-1966) - Alison Uttley (1884-1976) - Elfrida Vipont (Elfrida Vipont Foulds, Charles Vipont) (1902-1992) - T. H. White (1911-).
Content:
Essays on authors and poets in this volume represent some of the best-known writers of children's literature in the twentieth century. This period is marked by certain characteristics, such as stories of groups of children bonded together, the emergence of strong female protagonists, the "career books", and a consciously subdued presence of pain and suffering. Many of these works are valued for the window they provided upon a culture now gone
Note:
Original 422 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
