Charles Lamb is quoted by Nicholas Tucker in

Suitable for Children? Controversies in Children’s Literature (London: Chatto & Windus for Sussex University Press, 1976), p. 116.

The quote from George Crabbe appears in Mary Trim, 'A Rediscovery of John Bunyan’s

A Book for Boys and Girls ’, in

International Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship , 8.3, pp. 149-67, p. 150.

Attention to marginalia and other evidence of how books were used and valued by the child readers has been discussed by Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens (as above) and more by M. O. Grenby,

The Child Reader, 1700-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Henry James’s views and their impact on children’s literature are discussed in Felicity A. Hughes, 'Children’s Literature: Theory and Practice’, in

Children’s Literature: The Development of Criticism (London and New York: Routledge, 1990 [1978]), pp. 71-90.

A useful discussion of 'the century of the child’ appears in Hugh Cunningham,

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