[63] The Juvenile Biographer, “containing the lives of little Masters and Misses, both good and naughty. Price three-pence”. E. Newbery’s list, 1789. The first edition must have been earlier, since a New England edition was published in 1787. See [Appendix A. III.]
[64] Vincent Voiture (1598-1648). See Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 189. Pope also praised Voiture.
[65] Printed for T. Carnan in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1786.
[66] This advice suggests a sly hit at the conversation-parties of the bluestockings, some of whom became writers of children’s books.
[67] Juvenile Correspondence; or letters suited to Children from four to above ten Years of Age. In three Sets. 2nd edition, London, John Marshall, n.d. (c. 1777). For details of another collection by Lucy Aikin (1816), see [Appendix A. III.]
[68] The letters of real children were even more mature. See [Appendix A. III.]
[69] Called here “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. This must have been Garrick’s Fairy Tale in Two Acts, taken from Shakespeare, played at the Haymarket in 1777. “The young Princes and Princesses” mentioned as having been at the play, were the children of George III, then between the ages of three and fourteen.
[70] See below—[Chapters V and VI.]
[71] See further—[Appendix A. III.]
[72] For nursery-books printed by Catnach and Pitts, see [Appendix A. III.]