'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books


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This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.







Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction


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This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.







Publisher and Bookseller


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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.




The Myrtles of Merrystone Mill


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The Myrtle family owns a mill and a station in Australia. They are far from big cities, but they try to live rightly despite difficulties. Looking for lost cattle and reclaiming them, finding a horse thief, dealing with accidents and injuries, the Myrtles strive to follow Christian principles.







Kitty & her queen


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