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Month: <span>May 2017</span>

Month: May 2017

'Celtic', fairy tales, folktales - Scottish, Gaelic - Irish, Gaelic - Scots, myth and legend, Scotland, women writers

‘Celtic Tales Told to the Children’

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Eighteen months on from our first descent into the Museum of Childhood’s basement vault and every box still tells a story. In one we opened lay two beautifully illustrated volumes from the early twentieth century. Several threads bound them together —  pooled from the same body of legends and stories …

books for girls, education & learning, fairy tales, women writers

Juliana Horatia Ewing – an inspiration in the reading lives of Victorian children

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One of the authors whose well-thumbed books we frequently discover in the Museum’s long-untouched boxes is Juliana Horatia Ewing. Once a popular and celebrated writer of late Victorian children’s fiction, her achievements  –  as so often the case with women writers of  –  have been overlooked. Here, Lois marks Ewing’s importance in the …

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