Our Little Ones and The Nursery, Vol. V, No. 9, July 1885
VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 2.6- Word count
- 62K words
- Chapters
- 7
Tags
Other Children's LiteratureEnglish Originals Family BondsCuriosityComing of AgeLife WisdomIllustrated GuideHeartwarming NarrativeNursery Rhymes19th Century AmericaParent-Child ReadingEarly ChildhoodSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971, and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Our Little Ones and The Nursery, Vol. V, No. 9, July 1885 by Various. Author: Various. Language: English. Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres. Release Date: Dec 21, 2012Editor's review
This is the July 1885 issue (Vol. V, No. 9) of the English children's magazine Our Little Ones and The Nursery, digitized and preserved by Project Gutenberg. As a cross-section of late nineteenth-century Anglo-American children's periodicals, it mixes nursery rhymes, short stories, riddles, caption text, and parenting columns; the language is plain and the pieces brief, retaining the layout pleasures and moralizing tone of children's reading matter of the time. Its value for readers lies not in the literary height of any single piece but in the childhood cultural ecology it presents as a whole: how adults chose content for children, paced their reading, and planted rules within entertainment. Readers interested in the history of children's literature, periodical publishing, and Victorian social manners can leaf through this issue as a miniature archive. General readers may also treat it as a vintage-flavored collection of short pieces to dip into at leisure.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars and students studying nineteenth-century Anglo-American children's periodicals and publishing history
- Readers interested in Victorian childhood culture and moral education
- Casual readers who enjoy short rhymes, riddles, and vintage illustrated styles
- Those collecting public-domain children's magazine samples for teaching or exhibition planning
Not a good fit for
- Young readers expecting a continuous long narrative or a modern children's novel
- Contemporary parents sensitive to old-fashioned didacticism and outdated views
- Readers seeking systematic theories of children's education rather than historical textual samples
Reading tips
- Read by column type, starting with rhymes and riddles, then stories and short parenting notes.
- Jot down recurring moral keywords as you read to observe the magazine's editorial orientation.
- Compare with other children's magazines of the same period, contrasting column design and language difficulty.
- Read only three to five pieces at a time, treating it as a slice of an era rather than a collection to finish in one sitting.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
FAQ
Is this issue suitable for children to read directly?
Some rhymes and short stories are simple enough in language for older children, but the issue as a whole carries nineteenth-century didacticism and outdated views; adults are advised to screen it first, or use it as historical material to discuss with children how children's reading has changed.What types of columns does the content include?
Judging from the magazine's nature and period conventions, it generally includes nursery rhymes, short stories, riddles, simple caption text, and short parenting pieces for adults; specific contents should be checked against the Project Gutenberg e-text, and it lends itself to reading by column.Why is it worth reading a children's magazine from over a century ago?
It preserves authentic samples of how adults then arranged children's reading and combined instruction with amusement, offering reference value for studying the history of children's literature, periodical publishing, and changing ideas of childhood, while also letting general readers directly sense the tone and layout pleasures of old-time reading matter.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Various AuthorVarious is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.