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  • Strengthening Scottish Identity in the 1930s

    Duncan Sim on the founding of the Claymore magazine and its impact on Scottish identity

    August 12, 2025
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The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century moved forward, the belief in the rags-to-riches narratives gradually started to give way to the significance of retaining social hierarchies,…

  • Teri Williams
  • January 7, 2021

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 1 of this blog series. Much Ado about Witchcraft in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes Often cited as the earliest example of a children’s novel, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes[i],…

  • Teri Williams
  • January 6, 2021

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a book-buying middle class, it should come as no surprise that the ‘irrational’ components of fairy stories were frowned upon by…

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  • January 5, 2021

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