Tag: Publishing

Last spring I published two books, and I haven’t posted to this blog since they came out. (Since long before then, if I’m totally honest). But last Monday was Memorial Day, and this weekend is the annual Children’s Literature Association conference, something I used to look forward to every year. So I’ve been thinking about

Excellent scholarship by Marah Gubar, Claudia Nelson, Victoria Ford Smith, M. O. Grenby, Alexandra Valint, and others has more than demonstrated the importance of children’s literature to nineteenth-century culture more broadly. My first book contributed to that conversation, arguing that Romantic-era children’s tales helped shape the reading habits of the Victorians. Last summer, I signed