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SUMMARY:The corner house with Aesop over the door: William Godwin's 'Juven
 ile Library' - Professor Matthew Grenby\, Newcastle University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:William Godwin (1756-1836) is known as many things: social phi
 losopher and political radical\; novelist\, playwright and journalist\; hu
 sband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley\; mentor to Percy 
 Shelley\, Wordsworth and Southey. What is less well known is his career as
  an author\, and publisher\, of books for children. Yet his 'Juvenile Libr
 ary'\, opened in 1805\, produced some of the most important and successful
  children's books of the period\, some still in print today. And his own b
 ooks for children\, when taken together\, represent a systematic attempt t
 o re-fashion the literature available for children in the early nineteenth
  century. Based on his personal correspondence and his diary\, as well as 
 the books themselves\, this paper explores the success\, failure\, and day
 -to-day operation of Godwin's Juvenile Library.\n\n*Matthew Grenby* is Pro
 fessor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Director of Research in the \nSch
 ool of English Literature\, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle Universi
 ty. He is \nEditor of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om GS5
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