Cambridge Library Collection - Education The Governess, (Paperback)

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Pandora Press edition, with introduction by Mary Cadogan. One of the most influential children's books of the 18th-century, and widely considered the first English novel written explicitly for children, Sarah Fielding's 1749 The Governess; or, Little Female Academy was one of the assigned texts i...

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Oxford University Press edition, edited by Jill E. Grey. Widely considered the first children's novel to be published in the Anglophone world, Sarah Fielding's The Governess was a groundbreaking book in many respects, focusing on what was then a new development: i.e., a school for girls. Publishe...

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First published in 1749, Sarah Fielding's The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy is not, as some other reviewers have claimed, the first children's book to be published in English (far from it!), but it is widely regarded as the first children's novel to appear in that language. Written by ...