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"The Young Maiden" is a treatise dedicated to the capacities of women. The author suggests, "Much is said in our age and country of the appropriate sphere of woman. The discussion of that point is too interesting and too important to be passed over in this work, but the consideration of it involves another, viz., What are her Natural Capacities? How does she compare with, and wherein differ from man? This topic seems a fit introduction to what may follow in our survey of the wide field now open before us. The capacities of woman may be ascertained by the study of her Physical, Intellectual, and Moral constitution; by the disclosures of the Sacred Scriptures; and by a reference to History, observation and experience.

Christian literature for children. --- Young women --- Conduct of life.

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Cet ouvrage met en regard, dans l’Europe catholique, protestante et orthodoxe, les catéchismes avec les littératures d’inspiration chrétienne destinées à l’enfance, en suivant un parcours chronologique et cartographique qui va des textes de la Réforme et de la Contre-réforme jusqu’aux ouvrages littéraires du xixe et du xxe siècle. Son originalité réside dans cette approche comparatiste et interdisciplinaire, qui a ouvert un dialogue fécond entre les historiens des religions et les spécialistes de littérature de jeunesse. Il met en perspective le rôle des catéchismes avec la naissance et le développement d’une production pour l’enfance, dont l’évolution a varié selon les confessions et les pays. Des genres et des formes multiples, dont le volume offre un riche panorama (hagiographies, biographies pieuses, fictions moralisatrices, romans, traductions et adaptations) ont été mis au service d’un dessein d’édification et d’apologétique, notamment en France et dans les pays de confession catholique ; l’ouvrage met en relation des textes très divers, qui empruntent les codes de la fiction et de l’écriture littéraire (choix énonciatifs, narration, fictionnalisation, utilisation de l’image). Dans un contexte européen, on rencontre aussi d’authentiques écrivains, auteurs d’œuvres animées par une pensée religieuse, qui se distinguent par l’invention romanesque et l’originalité de l’écriture.

Christian literature for children --- Catechisms --- Children's literature, European --- Religious education of children --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Religion --- History --- Literature --- catholicisme --- protestantisme --- histoire des religions --- littérature de jeunesse --- catéchisme

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This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children’s spiritual edification because of their personal faith. It explores three prevalent theological and controversial doctrines of the period, namely Soteriology, Biblical Authority and Eschatology, in relation to children’s specifically engendered Christian literature. It traces the ecclesiastical networks and affiliations across the theological spectrum of Evangelical authors, publishers, theologians, clergy and scholars of the period. An unprecedented deluge of Evangelical literature was produced for millions of Sunday School children in the nineteenth century, resulting in one of its most prolific and profitable forms of publishing. It expanded into a vast industry whose magnitude, scope and scale is discussed throughout this book. Rather than dismissing Evangelical children’s literature as simplistic, formulaic, moral didacticism, this book argues that, in attempting to convert the mass reading public, nineteenth-century authors and publishers developed a complex, highly competitive genre of children’s literature to promote their particular theologies, faith and churchmanships, and to ultimately save the nation. Irene Euphemia Smale is an Adviser on Children’s and Family Work for the Church of England and a leading expert in historical research for the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households. She is Chaplain to the Prebendal School in Chichester and Cathedral Deacon for the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Chichester. She is an alumna of the University of Chichester, UK, and was an Associate Lecturer in Practical Theology there for several years. Smale has previously published on children and religion in society from the ancient world to Jesus Christ.

Great Britain—History. --- Religion—History. --- Children's literature. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Social history. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Religion. --- Children's Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Social History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Children's literature, English. --- Christian literature for children. --- Evangelicalism in literature. --- Children's Christian literature --- Children's literature --- English children's literature --- English literature