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This is a list of 18th-century British children's literature titles (ordered by year of publication): A Little Book for Little Children (1702) by Thomas White; A Token for Children (1709) by James Janeway; Divine Songs (1715) by Isaac Watts; A Description of Three Hundred Animals (1730) by Thomas Boreman
Title page from the first edition of Original Stories (1788). Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft.
Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children. In Europe, Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press around 1440 made possible mass production of books, though the first printed books were quite expensive and remained so for a ...
Children's books set during the American Revolutionary War (11 P) T. Treasure Island (2 C, 27 P, 38 F) Pages in category "Children's books set in the 18th century"
This is a list of 18th-century British children's literature authors (arranged by year of birth): Isaac Watts (1674–1748) [1] Sarah Fielding (1710–1768) [2]
According to Samuel Pickering Jr., a scholar of eighteenth-century children's literature, "in its depiction of eighteenth-century attitudes toward animals, Mrs. Trimmer’s Fabulous Histories was the most representative children’s book of the period." [2]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Pages in category "18th-century British children's literature" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .