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Reenactment of printing newspapers in 18th-century colonial America. This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year or two for a book to be ...
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
Margaret E. Knight was born in York, Maine on February 14, 1838, to Hannah Teal and James Knight. [4] As a little girl, “Mattie,” as her parents and friends nicknamed her, preferred to play with woodworking tools instead of dolls, stating that “the only things [she] wanted were a jack knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood.” [5] She was known as a child for her kites and sleds.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
What Is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books. University of Notre Dame Press. Diringer, David (1982). The book before printing : ancient, medieval, and oriental. New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-24243-9. Eisenstein, Elizabeth (2005). The printing revolution in early modern Europe. Cambridge UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521 ...
Immel, Andrea and Michael Witmore, eds. Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800. (2006). Kopf, Hedda Rosner. Understanding Anne Frank's the Diary of a Young Girl: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (1997) Krupp, Anthony. Reason's Children: Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy (2009)
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. [1] Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She ...