Children, Women and Workers


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Children, Women and Workers

Children, Women and Workers: As primary education became compulsory from the late 19th century, children became an important category of readers. Anything that was unsuitable for children or would appear vulgar to the elites, was changed. Women became important as readers as well as writers. Penny magazines were especially meant women, as these were full of essays about proper behavior and house-keeping. Some of the best known women novelists were Jane Austen, Eliot and the Bronte sisters (Anne, Emily Charlotte). Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: a person with will, strength of personality, determination and the power to think, In the 19th 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 political and autobiographies.

Children’s Press: The Grimm Brothers in Germany spent years for compiling traditional folk tales from peasants and stories were published in 1812. The children’s press was set up in France in 1857. This press published new works as well as old fairy tales and folk tales for children.

 
 


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