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12018-12-06T10:26:59+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed9677214117A handwritten magazine, modeled on popular periodicals of the day, created by three young children in rural New Hampshire in January 1893.plain2020-01-08T21:23:34+00:00Nelson, WalterNelson, ArthurNelson, ElmerJanuary 1893pdfEnglishPublic DomainBox 1 folder 8, Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection of Pamela Russell and Murray McClellan, Amherst College Archives and Special Collectionjuvenile periodicals,family magazines, child authors, imaginary play, world-makingtext (manuscript)Anonymous
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Karen Sánchez-Eppler is L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. The author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism and the Politics of the Body (1993) and Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (2005), she is currently working on two book projects The Unpublished Republic: Manuscript Cultures of the Mid-Nineteenth Century US and In the Archives of Childhood: Playing with the Past and has co-edited with Cristanne Miller The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (2022). Her scholarship has been supported by grants from the NEH, ACLS, the Newberry Library, the Winterthur Library, the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Antiquarian Society and the Fulbright Foundation. She is one of the founding co-editors of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and past President of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
12018-12-06T10:39:36+00:00Chit Chat5Handwritten magazine, modeled on popular periodicals of the day, created by three young children in rural New Hampshire in January 1893plain2020-01-15T18:36:57+00:00Nelson, WalterNelson, ArthurNelson, ElmerJanuary 1893pdfEnglishPublic DomainBox 1 folder 8, Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection of Pamela Russell and Murray McClellan, Amherst College Archives and Special Collectionjuvenile periodicals, family magazines, child authors, imaginary play, world-makingtext (manuscript)