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Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters
Edited by Charlotte Appel, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 15] 2023
► pp. 296–314

Chapter 13
“Travel […] is a part of education”

Teachers, children, and books on the move

Early modern and Enlightenment children travelled. They toured, emigrated, visited family, or fled persecution. Silvia Cole, the Dutch-English granddaughter of a Huguenot, moved to London. An Austrian ambassador’s daughter read English children’s books. Colonial civil servants and military officers fathered children while posted abroad, sometimes with local women. Teachers, female and male, also travelled, whether as religious, political, or economic migrants. Writing masters travelled to the American colonies. The French Revolution spread educators across Europe. Booksellers and printers published in more than one language and advertised to colonial markets. Drawing on paratexts, life writing, manuscripts, ephemera, and marginalia, this chapter seeks commonalities of reading experiences among children living abroad or in the care of foreign teachers, exploring how booksellers catered to both groups.

Article outline
  • The teachers
  • The children
  • The booksellers
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 August 2023
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