A Post-script: I found the reference!
Posted by SuzanneR on August 18, 1998 at 13:08:58:
In response to Fairy Tales, written by SuzanneR on August 18, 1998 at 11:59:45
From The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature:
"Folklore has been under attack as unsuitable reading for
children at least since the 16th century. In the eighteenth
century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his highly influential book
Emile or on Education (1762), argued that children should
be given nothing but the unvarnished truth. In 1802, the
vigorous Mrs. Trimmer founded The Guardian of Education,
the first magazine to carry regular reviews of children's
literature, and she followed in Rousseau's footsteps:
'We cannot approve of those [books] which are only fit to fill
the heads of children with confused notions of wonderful and
supernatural events, brought about by the agency of imaginary
beings.'" (249)
The "vigorous Mrs. Trimmer" sounds an interesting character
to me.
Suzanne
- Fairy Tales Bob Whitworth 18:23:48 8/18/98
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- Games, Books & Children P. Bingham 18:16:38 8/19/98
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- Thanks, Patricia: you clarified the matter SuzanneR 13:26:45 8/20/98
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- Thanks, Patricia: you clarified the matter SuzanneR 13:26:45 8/20/98
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- Games, Books & Children P. Bingham 18:16:38 8/19/98
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