Key Points from the First and Second Lectures of the “Stories of Geniuses” Series

*For ref­er­ence by those who will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the June 16th event. The key fig­ures and works are marked in red.

Lec­ture 1: The Vic­to­ri­an Era in Britain and the Amer­i­can West­ward Expan­sion
——The Secret of the Rise of Amer­i­can Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture

Lewis Car­roll
 Ran­dolph Calde­cott Kate Green­away
Beat­rix Pot­ter (1866) The Tale of Peter Rab­bit
Roland Ingalls Wilder (1867) “Lit­tle House on the Prairie” series
Janet Sper­ling Lowry (1892) The Slow­est Pup­py in the World
Louise Bech­tel
, Anne Car­roll Moore, Lucy Mitchell
Hen­drik Willem van Loon
 The Sto­ry of Human­i­ty
Wan­da Geiger
 A Mil­lion Cats
Vir­ginia Lee Bur­ton  
Lit­tle House

Lec­ture 2: New Trends in Amer­i­can Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture in the First Half of the 20th Cen­tu­ry

Mar­garet Ray and HA
Ray (1906/1898) Curi­ous George series
EB
White (1899) Stu­art Lit­tle, Char­lot­te’s Web, and The Trum­pet of the Swan
Eva Le Golian (1899)
(Actor, trans­la­tor, writer)
Jen­ny D. Lindquist (1899)
(Book review­er, writer)
Ruth Krauss (1901)
Car­rot Seeds
Crock­ett John­son (1906) Arrow series

Green­wich Vil­lage Cir­cle of Friends(SeePref­ace to “Sto­ries of Genius­es” (Draft))

“Gold­en Chil­dren’s Books” Work­ing Group: Georges Dupleix, Lucille Auger, Gus­tav Ten­gren, Fyo­dor Rodzinkovsky, Mar­garet Wise Brown (asso­ci­at­ed with the Bank Street School of Edu­ca­tion inter­est group)…

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