Franconia Stories

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In children’s literature: Prehistory (1646?–1865)
The latter’s Franconia Stories (1850–53), however, showing traces of Rousseau and Johann Pestalozzi, is the remote ancestor of those wholesome, humorous pictures of small-town child life in which American writers excelled after World War I. Affectionately based on the author’s own memories, they occasionally reveal children rather…
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