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- 1722 Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop and
Others, illustrated by Elisha Kirkall
- 1726 A Compendious History of the Old and New
Testament, the first Bible rewritten in prose
"adapted to all capacities" (as the title page
claims) • Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- 1744 John Newbery's A Little Pretty Pocket-Book,
which contains an early play alphabet; and Mary
Cooper's Tommy Thumb's Song Book, the
earliest nursery rhyme collection • Jane
Johnson's A Very Pretty Story to Tell Children
when they are about five or six years of Age; Mrs.
Johnson is important for having produced, in
the spirit of Locke, inspired and playful teaching
materials for her own children, including
interactive card games and mobiles.
- 1749 Sarah Fielding's The Governess; or, The
Little Female Academy, one of the first books
published specifically for girls; it contains two
didactic fairy tales
- 1761 First publication of "Beauty and the Beast"
in The Young Misses' Magazine, a translation of
Mme Leprince de Beaumont's Le Magasin des
enfans (1757)
- 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile; ou, De
Íéducation (Eng. translation 1762); Rousseau
developed a critique of traditional education and
schools by depicting how he would raise a boy
in a natural setting, and how the boy would
learn from his experiences rather than from
reading. Above all, he was to be protected from
social institutions that might corrupt him.
Rousseau also attacked organized religion; the
work was so controversial that it was banned by
the church.
- 1765 The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
published by John Newbery
- 1773 Boston Tea Party
- 1775-83 American War of Independence
- 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence
- 1137-1453 Hundred Years' War
- 1780 Sunday School Movement initiated when
Robert Raikes starts a Sunday school in
Gloucester, England, to teach poor children to
read
- 1781 Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Hymns in Prose,
long popular in England and America
- ca. 1785 First American edition of Mother
Goose's Melodies
- 1786 Sarah Trimmer's Economy of Charity,
written to promote Sunday schools and to advise
on their organization
- 1787 U.S. Constitution adopted
- 1789 William Blake's Songs of Innocence and
Experience • Fall of the Bastille (beginning of
the French Revolution)
- 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman
- 1793 Execution of Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette. France declares war against Britain
(and then Britain against France). The Reign of
Terror begins.
- 1793-1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1795-98 Hannah More's Cheap Repository
Tracts, designed for the newly literate readers
being taught in Sunday schools
- 1796 Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant;
her Early Lessons follows in 1801
- 1799 Foundation in London of the Religious
Tract Society, later publishers of much Sunday
school fiction
- ca. 1800 Mason Locke Weems's The Life and
Memorable Actions of George Washington
- 1802-06 Sarah Trimmer's The Guardian of
Education
- 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor of France,
putting a virtual end to the French Revolution
- 1805 William Godwin's Fables Ancient and
Modern, an adaptation for young children;
Godwin opens a children's book shop with his wife, Mary Clairmont • French fleet defeated by
the British at Trafalgar
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