1st Edition
The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature Only the Best
By Elizabeth West
Copyright 2023
260 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison with the ‘golden ages’ of children’s literature that preceded and succeeded it. This book questions this perception by using archival evidence to argue that the work of what was predominantly a female group of editors, illustrators, authors and... Read more
Biography
Elizabeth West received her PhD from the University of Reading, awarded in June 2021 in children’s book history. She received the David Almond Fellowship, Seven Stories/University of Newcastle, 2018 and the Brotherton Fellowship, University of Leeds, 2022. She is currently ECR Fellow at Reading’s Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Dr West has presented papers at the IRSCL Congress, 2019; Women in Publishing Symposium, 2019; 25th NCRCL MA/IBBY UK Conference, 2018; and Children’s History Society Conference, 2018. Publications include an article in Roundtable, 2(1), 5, and a chapter in the forthcoming The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2000.
