Question 14 Marks
As primary education became compulsory from the late nineteenth century, children became an important category of readers. Production of school textbooks became critical for the publishing industry. A children's press, devoted to literature for children alone, was set up in France in 1857. This press published new works as well as old fairy tales and folk tales. The Grimm Brothers in Germany spent years compiling traditional folk tales gathered from peasants. What they collected was edited before the stories were published in a collection in 1812. Anything that was considered unsuitable for children or would appear vulgar to the elites, was not included in the published version.
Women became important as readers as well as writers. Penny magazines were especially meant for women, as were manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping. When novels began to be written in the nineteenth century, women were seen as important readers. Some of the best-known novelists were women. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: a person with a will, the strength of personality, determination and the power to think.
In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in England became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle-class people. Sometimes, self-educated working-class people wrote for themselves. After the working day was gradually shortened from the mid-nineteenth century, workers had some time for selfimprovement and self-expression. They wrote political tracts and autobiographies in large numbers.
i. What was the special feature of the published version of book for children?
ii. What was the impact of print on workers?
iii. Name some famous women novelists. How did they redefine the women?
Women became important as readers as well as writers. Penny magazines were especially meant for women, as were manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping. When novels began to be written in the nineteenth century, women were seen as important readers. Some of the best-known novelists were women. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: a person with a will, the strength of personality, determination and the power to think.
In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in England became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle-class people. Sometimes, self-educated working-class people wrote for themselves. After the working day was gradually shortened from the mid-nineteenth century, workers had some time for selfimprovement and self-expression. They wrote political tracts and autobiographies in large numbers.
i. What was the special feature of the published version of book for children?
ii. What was the impact of print on workers?
iii. Name some famous women novelists. How did they redefine the women?
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View full question & answer→i. Anything that was considered unsuitable for children or would appear vulgar to the elites, was not included in the published version.
ii. In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in England became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle-class people. Sometimes, self-educated working-class people wrote for themselves. Workers had some time for self-improvement and self-expression. They wrote political tracts and autobiographies in large numbers.
iii. Some of the best-known novelists were Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot.
iv. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: a person with a will, the strength of personality, determination and the power to think.
ii. In the nineteenth century, lending libraries in England became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans and lower-middle-class people. Sometimes, self-educated working-class people wrote for themselves. Workers had some time for self-improvement and self-expression. They wrote political tracts and autobiographies in large numbers.
iii. Some of the best-known novelists were Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot.
iv. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: a person with a will, the strength of personality, determination and the power to think.