Mary Martha Sherwood

British author

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In children’s literature: From T.W. to Alice (1712?–1865)
But Mary Martha Sherwood could hardly have sympathized with Rousseau’s notion of the natural innocence of children; the author of The History of the Fairchild Family (1818–47) based her family chronicle on the proposition (which she later softened) that “all children are by nature evil.” Of…
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