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Why Studying Children's Literature Isn't Fun Anymore - Margaret Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories; Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1981, xxi + 275 pp. - Samuel F. PickeringJr. John Locke and Children's Books in Eighteenth-Century England. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981, xiii + 286 pp. - J. S. Bratton, The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction. London: Croom Helm and Totowa, N. J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981, 230 pp.

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C. John Sommerville
C. John Sommerville*
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University of Florida
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , Winter 1983 , pp. 515 - 522
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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