Download or read book Written for Children written by John Rowe Townsend and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a brief, readable account of English prose fiction for children from its beginning main streams of development and includes the 'Courtesy Books' of a later age, and the work of the remarkable John Newbery in the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century which began with Mrs. Sherwood's The Fairchild Family - 'designed to strike the fear of hellfire into every child's soul' - later saw the works of Lewis Carroll, Stevenson, Henty and the development of the school story from 'Tom Brown' to 'Stalky.'"--Book Jacket.