Eve GarnettEnglish author

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  • contribution to children’s literature ( in children’s literature: Coming of age (1865–1945) )

    Finally it is characterized by the dominance in children’s fiction of middle and upper middle class mores; the appearance, in the late 1930s, with Eve Garnett’s The Family from One End Street, of stories showing a sympathetic concern with the lives of slum children; the reflection, also in the 30s, of a serious interest, influenced by modern psychology, in the structure of the child’s...

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