Evenings at Home explained

Evenings at Home or, The Juvenile Budget Opened
Author:	John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld
Country:	England
Language:	English
Genre:	Novel
Publisher:	Longman and Co. et al.
Release Date:	1796
Media Type:	Print (Hardback)

Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened (1792–1796) is a collection of six volumes of stories written by John Aikin and his sister Anna Laetitia Barbauld. It is an early example of children's literature. The late Victorian children's writer Mary Louisa Molesworth named it as one of the handful of books that was owned by every family in her childhood and read enthusiastically.^[1] In their introduction, the authors explain the title in these words:

The book was translated into French.^[2] W. S. Gilbert took the title for one of his plays, Eyes and No Eyes (1875), from one of the stories in the collection.^[3] Ichchharam Desai translated these stories in Gujarati as Balkono Anand (1895).

Further reading

• Ferguson . Frances . Frances Ferguson . The Novel Comes of Age: When Literature Started Talking with Children . . 28 . 1 . 37 - 63 . . 10.1215/10407391-3821688 . May 2017 .

References

• Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Zipes, Jack (ed) et al. The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English. W. W. Norton, 2005.
• Zipes, Jack (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Volumes 1–4. Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Watson, Victor, The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Demmers, Patricia (ed). From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850, Oxford University Press, 2003. Table of Contents. 384 pages. .
• St. John, Judith. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566–1910, A Catalogue, Toronto Public Library.
• Book: Patel, Aartiben G. . બાળસાહિત્યના સર્જકો : જીવરામ જોશી અને યશવંત મહેતા . Authors of Children's Literature: Jivram Joshi and Yashwant Mehta. gu. Ahmedabad . Parshwa Publication. 978-91-5108-173-1. 2014. 28–42. .

External links

• British Library: Children's Literature
• Search publishing histories: Copac: Academic & National Library Catalogue at the University of Manchester.
• Another website: British Library: Integrated Catalogue .
• Search: Library of Congress Online Catalog
• Search: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• Course syllabus: Studies in Eighteenth century literature: Books for Children, at the University of Toronto.

Notes and References

1. Carpenter, H. and M. Prichard. 1984. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
2. Volume 3 is available online: Les Soirées Au Logis, Ou l'Ouverture du Porte-Feuille De La Jeunesse: Renfermant un mélange de pièces diverses pour l'instruction des jeunes personnes, Paschoud, Geneva, 1797
3. [John Aikin|Aikin, John]