The worlds of children, 1620-1920
By: editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.
Contributors: Benes, Peter.; Benes, Jane Montague.
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings ;; 2002; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ;; 2002.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Children -- New England -- History.; Children -- New England -- Biography -- Congresses.; Child labor -- History -- Congresses.; Picture books for children -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Education -- New England -- History -- Congresses.; Orphanages -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Biography; Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and bibliography (p. 221-237).
Table of contents: title: Cultures of boys' play in mid-nineteenth century New England: the case of James Edward Wright / Rebecca R. Noel; title: Sickness and death in doll play, 1850-1897 / Sarah Anne Carter; title: The education of Joseph Prince: reading adolescent culture in eighteenth-century New England / Douglas L. Winiarski; title: One voice: the work and words of Litchfield Female Academy student Charlotte Hopper Newcomb, 1809-1810 / Judith Livingston Loto; title: 'Our children are our best works': Mary Ware Allen's transcendental education / Lesley Ginsberg; title: Childhood and the expansion of the eighteenth-century British Empire / Geoffrey Plank; title: Gendered expectations: orphans and apprenticeship in Antebellum New England / Susan L. Porter; title: Representations of children in the lithographs of the Kellogg brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1870 / Nancy Finlay; title: The child's picture gallery: picture books from nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Laura Wasowicz; title: 'Heralds of a noisy world': carrier boys, post-riders, and the print revolution in early America / Vincent DiGirolamo; title: Juvenile singing schools and floral concerts: Thomas P. Moses's nineteenth-century children's choirs in Portsmouth, New Hampshire / Richard M. Candee; title: Child performers and prodigies in New England, 1795-1830 / Peter Benes; title: Du Simitière's sketches of Pope Day in Boston, 1767 / J.L. Bell; title: Autobiographical fragment: Isaiah Thomas remembers Pope Day in Boston.