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Today, May 3, 2024, week number 18
Roald Dahl /ˌroʊld ˈdɑːl/ (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for both children and adults.
Among his most popular books are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, and Kiss Kiss.
Roald Dahl was born at 32 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales in 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).(more...)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743—March 9, 1825) was a prominent eighteenth-century British poet, essayist, and children's author.
As a "woman of letters" who published successfully in multiple genres, Barbauld had a significant effect on many aspects of her society. As a teacher at the celebrated Palgrave Academy and a children's writer, Barbauld also had a significant effect on education. Her famous primers provided a model for "infant pedagogy" for more than a century. Her essays demonstrated that it was possible for women to be publicly engaged in politics, and she herself provided a model of the female writer for contemporary women to emulate. Even more importantly, her poetry was foundational to the development of literary Romanticism in England. Barbauld was also a literary critic; her anthology of eighteenth-century British novels helped to establish the canon as we know it today. (more...)
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Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741–December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical, The Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century. (More)