TY - SER AU - Gretchen R. Galbraith CY - New York, NY LA - English N1 - Contents: pt. 1 British Childhoods Remembered. "As through a Telescope Reversed": British Childhoods, 1860-1914. Reading Lives and Lives of Reading pt. 2. Constructing a Literature of Childhood. Real and Wholesome Pleasure": Critics Guard the Boundaries of Children's Literature. Creating a Magazine World. "Another Ladder Altogether": Writing for Children pt. 3. The Politics of Literacy in London's Board Schools. An "Efficient and Suitable" Elementary Education. Overpressure in London's Board Schools, 1883-1884. "A Power of Reading": "The Key to All Knowledge." PB - St. Martin's Press PP - New York, NY PY - 1997 SN - 9780312121433 EP - 184 pp. TI - Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books, and Schools in Britain, 1870-1920 ER -