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Dr Michelle Smith
Sep 4, 2008, 6:58:29 AM9/4/08
to Nineteenth Century Children's Literature
Welcome to the Nineteenth Century Children's Literature Google Group.
While listservs such as VICTORIA and child_lit are invaluable
resources, I hope that this can become a dedicated space for those of
us whose interests cut across the topics covered by both of these
large listservs. While you can be unusual if you are a 19th century
specialist among children's literature scholars or if you are the lone
children's literature specialist at a 19th century conference, here
you will be among creatures of your own kind.
All of us no doubt receive too many emails already, but with a Google
group you can individually choose to view the messages online only,
receive a digest version of postings, or individual replies like
traditional listservs. I would imagine that we won't be too profilic
given our smaller numbers, but that most posts will be highly relevant
to almost all members.
By way of introduction, my name is Michelle Smith and I completed my
PhD in 2007 at the University of Melbourne. My thesis considered
empire in British girls' print culture 1880-1914 (including The Girls'
Own Paper, Bessie Marchant's adventure fiction, Angela Brazil's school
stories, E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A
Little Princess and The Secret Garden). I am currently teaching a
subject called "Power Politics in Children's Texts" at Deakin
University in Melbourne. I'm hoping to work on 19th Century Australian
texts for girls next as part of a grant application with Kristine
Moruzi (also from the University of Melbourne).
While listservs such as VICTORIA and child_lit are invaluable
resources, I hope that this can become a dedicated space for those of
us whose interests cut across the topics covered by both of these
large listservs. While you can be unusual if you are a 19th century
specialist among children's literature scholars or if you are the lone
children's literature specialist at a 19th century conference, here
you will be among creatures of your own kind.
All of us no doubt receive too many emails already, but with a Google
group you can individually choose to view the messages online only,
receive a digest version of postings, or individual replies like
traditional listservs. I would imagine that we won't be too profilic
given our smaller numbers, but that most posts will be highly relevant
to almost all members.
By way of introduction, my name is Michelle Smith and I completed my
PhD in 2007 at the University of Melbourne. My thesis considered
empire in British girls' print culture 1880-1914 (including The Girls'
Own Paper, Bessie Marchant's adventure fiction, Angela Brazil's school
stories, E. Nesbit's Psammead trilogy and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A
Little Princess and The Secret Garden). I am currently teaching a
subject called "Power Politics in Children's Texts" at Deakin
University in Melbourne. I'm hoping to work on 19th Century Australian
texts for girls next as part of a grant application with Kristine
Moruzi (also from the University of Melbourne).
Helen Schinske
Sep 5, 2008, 1:01:19 PM9/5/08
to Nineteenth Century Children's Literature
I'm Helen Schinske, and I'm an editor, erstwhile librarian, and
independent scholar. Years ago I used to be a cataloger of 19th-
century children's books at the American Antiquarian Society, in
Worcester, Massachusetts. (I am now back in Seattle, where I grew up.)
During that time I started collecting Juliana Ewing and Charlotte
Yonge, among others. I did a lot of book-buying from the UK during the
1990s, when I was cooped up with small children and the postage wasn't
as high as it is now. I now own most of Yonge's books (anyone who's
looked at her bibliography can appreciate why getting to 100% is
difficult), and roughly 75% of the volumes of the Monthly Packet,
which was edited by Yonge for nearly fifty years. With Ellen Jordan
and Charlotte Mitchell I have been involved in editing Yonge's
letters, which recently started to go online.
I hang out on Victoria, Child_Lit, Girlsown, Copyediting-L, and
various other online venues.
Helen
http://www.linkedin.com/in/schinske
independent scholar. Years ago I used to be a cataloger of 19th-
century children's books at the American Antiquarian Society, in
Worcester, Massachusetts. (I am now back in Seattle, where I grew up.)
During that time I started collecting Juliana Ewing and Charlotte
Yonge, among others. I did a lot of book-buying from the UK during the
1990s, when I was cooped up with small children and the postage wasn't
as high as it is now. I now own most of Yonge's books (anyone who's
looked at her bibliography can appreciate why getting to 100% is
difficult), and roughly 75% of the volumes of the Monthly Packet,
which was edited by Yonge for nearly fifty years. With Ellen Jordan
and Charlotte Mitchell I have been involved in editing Yonge's
letters, which recently started to go online.
I hang out on Victoria, Child_Lit, Girlsown, Copyediting-L, and
various other online venues.
Helen
http://www.linkedin.com/in/schinske
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