Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Establishing children's magazines, 1823/1856. Deacon Willis's Companion
  • Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the limits of gentility
  • Commercializing children's magazines, 1857/1873. Perry Mason and sensational gentility
  • The youth's companion and the Civil War
  • The cultural custodians
  • The jack-in-the-pulpit
  • Sustaining children's magazines, 1873/1918. Tales and the city
  • Children's magazines and modern childhood
  • Epilogue.