F. Anstey (1856-1934) -- Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) -- J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) -- Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) -- L. Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) -- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) -- Lucy Clifford (1853?-1929) -- Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) -- Kate Greenway (1846-1901) -- G.A. Henry (1832?-1902) -- Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) -- Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) -- Ruyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Andrew Lang (1844-1912) -- L.T. Meade (1844-1914) -- E. Nesbit (1858-1924) -- William Nicholson (1872-1949) -- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) -- Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) -- Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1912) -Bertha Upton (1849-1912) and Florence K. Upton 91873-1933) -- Stanley J. Weyman (1854-1928) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Summary
Representative and comprehensive view of the range of writers and writer-artists who played vital roles in creating "Childhood's Golden Era." Works that broke away from Victorian didacticism and moral tales and instead shifted to entertaining stories that introduced more freedom and fun into the child's world
Notes
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index
