Popular Children S Literature in Britain

Julia Briggs was, until her death in 2007, Professor of English Literature at De Montfort University, UK. She was the author of many books, including Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (1977), This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625 (1983), A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit (1987) and Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (2005). Dennis Butts taught children’s literature at Reading University, UK. He has written widely about children’s books, and edited many scholarly editions and critical studies including Stories and Society: Children’s Literature in its Social Context (1992) and From the Dairyman’s Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The Religious Tract Society (2006). M.O. Grenby is Reader in Children’s Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural history and on children’s literature. His books include The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (2001) and the Edinburgh Critical Guide to Children’s Literature (2008).