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Sarah Trimmer, highlights
Trimmer produced several bestselling editions of the Bible, as well as numerous religious commentaries, including commentaries on famous sermons.
She edited The Family Magazine (for the use of servants) and published The Guardian of Education, (1802-1806), which was intended for educators. The 1802 issue contained “the genre’s first retrospective analysis.” (Immel, 147)
She was one of the first children’s book critics: The Guardian was the first magazine “systematically to review and criticize children’s books.” (Heath) During her time was considered an authority. (Immel, 156)
She was very aware of the impact of pictures on children and produced history prints. She recommended these for rooms “in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.” (A Set of Prints of Roman History.” 1789)
Trimmer was instrumental in developing Sunday schools which taught literacy and religion and Charity schools which taught girls to be teachers or domestics.
She also wrote The Economy of Charity (1787) in which she taught other upper class women how to open schools. She contributed to the development of female authority and agency (albeit in an acceptable female realm).
Trimmer wrote books to teach children how to treat animals with kindness, one of her first was An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature (1780). Its subtitle reveals how inextricably she connected all everything with religion: and Reading the Holy Scriptures, Adapted to the Capacities of Children.
She also wrote that era’s Watership Down. Her Fabulous Histories (1786) is an extended allegorical story including a human family and an anthropomorphized family of robins. The story of Robin Redbreast and his family was reprinted into the twentieth century, becoming “the text with which all other animal fables contended.” (Ruwe, 1) On the surface it teaches kindness to animals but it embeds political and social commentary which reflects her conservative views.
Trimmer produced several bestselling editions of the Bible, as well as numerous religious commentaries, including commentaries on famous sermons.
She edited The Family Magazine (for the use of servants) and published The Guardian of Education, (1802-1806), which was intended for educators. The 1802 issue contained “the genre’s first retrospective analysis.” (Immel, 147)
She was one of the first children’s book critics: The Guardian was the first magazine “systematically to review and criticize children’s books.” (Heath) During her time was considered an authority. (Immel, 156)
She was very aware of the impact of pictures on children and produced history prints. She recommended these for rooms “in which children receive the first rudiments of their education.” (A Set of Prints of Roman History.” 1789)
Trimmer was instrumental in developing Sunday schools which taught literacy and religion and Charity schools which taught girls to be teachers or domestics.
She also wrote The Economy of Charity (1787) in which she taught other upper class women how to open schools. She contributed to the development of female authority and agency (albeit in an acceptable female realm).
Trimmer wrote books to teach children how to treat animals with kindness, one of her first was An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature (1780). Its subtitle reveals how inextricably she connected all everything with religion: and Reading the Holy Scriptures, Adapted to the Capacities of Children.
She also wrote that era’s Watership Down. Her Fabulous Histories (1786) is an extended allegorical story including a human family and an anthropomorphized family of robins. The story of Robin Redbreast and his family was reprinted into the twentieth century, becoming “the text with which all other animal fables contended.” (Ruwe, 1) On the surface it teaches kindness to animals but it embeds political and social commentary which reflects her conservative views.