Nursery Rhymes of England

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By James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Boston, 1842

Nursery Rhymes of England

Written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips

Boston, Monroe and Francis, 1842

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The Hawthornes had two children, Una, aged 6, and Julian, aged 4, at the time of The Scarlet Letter's publication. Doting, indulgent parents, they roundly rejected the fire-and-brimstone theology of The New-England Primer and took pleasure in reading to their children from the growing body of imaginative juvenile literature then available—stories such as the Grimms' "Hop-o'-My Thumb" and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." 


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By James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Boston, 1842

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Visions of Childhood
A Question of Class
Nursery Rhymes of England