''Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened'' (1792–1796) is a collection of six volumes of stories written by
John Aikin
John Aikin (15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
Life
He was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, son o ...
and his sister
Anna Laetitia Barbauld. It is an early example of
children's literature. The
late Victorian children's writer
Mary Louisa Molesworth named it as one of the handful of books that was owned by every family in her childhood and read enthusiastically. In their introduction, the authors explain the title in these words:
The book was translated into French.
W. S. Gilbert took the title for one of his plays, ''
Eyes and No Eyes
''Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing'' is a one-act musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music originally by Thomas German Reed. The story concerns two sisters who love flirtatious twin brothers (though it is not cert ...
'' (1875), from one of the stories in the collection.
[ Aikin, John and Anna Laetitia Barbauld]
"Eyes and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing"
The Internet Archive, accessed 24 November 2009 Ichchharam Desai translated these stories in
Gujarati as ''Balkono Anand'' (1895).
Further reading
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Notes
References
* Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard. ''Oxford Companion to Children's Literature''. Oxford University Press, 1997.
* Zipes, Jack (ed) et al. ''The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English.'' W. W. Norton, 2005.
* Zipes, Jack (ed.). ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Volumes 1–4''. Oxford University Press, 2006.
* Watson, Victor, ''The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English''. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
* Demmers, Patricia (ed). ''From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850'', Oxford University Press, 2003.
Table of Contents 384 pages. .
* St. John, Judith. ''The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566–1910, A Catalogue'', Toronto Public Library.
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External links
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Copac: Academic & National Library Catalogueat the University of Manchester.
* Another website
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the University of Toronto.
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Book series introduced in 1792
1790s children's books
18th-century British children's literature
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Children's short story collections