The quote from T. S. Eliot is taken from Margaret Drabble’s

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (London: Atlantic Books, 2009), p. 56.

The references from Spufford occur in the first chapter of

The Child that Books Built (London: Faber and Faber, 2002).

The quote from F. J. Harvey Darton (Alderson’s 1982 revised edition as above) appears on p. 260.

Emer O’Sullivan discusses Hazard and the founding of comparative children’s literature in Peter Hunt (ed., 2004), as above, pp. 13-25.

Discussions of the more open style of writing used by some writers when addressing children are found in Hamida Bosmajian, 'Psychoanalytic Criticism’, in

Child Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture (London: Routledge, 1992); Catherine Robson,

Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001), and Jacqueline Rose (as above).

For more on Jungian theory and children’s literature, see Susan Hancock,

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