Category:Little Wide-Awake

Title(s)

Little Wide-Awake; an Illustrated Magazine for Good Children (1875-1892)

Editor(s)

Lucy Elizabeth (Mrs.) Sale-Barker (1875-May 1892)

(Miss) Sale-Barker (Jan. 1892-Nov. 1892)^[1]

Overview

Little Wide-Awake: A Story Book for Little Children was a children’s magazine published as a hardcover book. The first publication came out in 1875 and was edited by Lucy Sale-Barker, a British children’s writer, who continued to edit the magazine until her death in 1892.^[2] The 1875 edition contains 400 wood cut illustrations engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, a firm of Victorian engravers founded in 1839, and Kate Greenaway’s father, John Greenaway.^[3] The preface of the first edition reads, “All these stories have either been invented and told, or recollected and told, by me [Mrs. Barker] to my own children...Most of the stories are my own, but here and there loved old friends, in the shape of poetry or prose, have been interspersed . . .”^[4]

For Further Reading

“Little Wide-Awake.” "The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2." Ed. John S. North. Waterloo, Ont: North Waterloo Academic Press. Web. 8 Apr. 2016.

Notes

1. ↑ “Little Wide-Awake,” The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2, Ed. John S. North, Waterloo, Ont: North Waterloo Academic Press, Web, 8 Apr. 2016.
2. ↑ “Little Wide-Awake,” The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2, Ed. John S. North, Waterloo, Ont: North Waterloo Academic Press, Web, 8 Apr. 2016.
3. ↑ Anthony Burton, “Dalziel family (per. 1840-1905),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Ed. Lawrence Goldman, Oxford: OUP, 2004-7, Web, 8 Apr. 2016. Barker, Mrs. Sale, “Little Wide Awake: A Story Book for Little Children,” "AbeBooks," Web, 8 Apr. 2016.
4. ↑ Sale-Barker, Lucy Elizabeth, “Preface,” "Little Wide-Awake: A Story Book for Little Children", London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874, Print, quoted in “Little Wide-Awake,” The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2, Ed. John S. North, Waterloo, Ont: North Waterloo Academic Press, Web, 8 Apr. 2016.

Submitted by: Cardon, Juliet: section 1, Fall 2014

Edited by: Holdaway, Chelsea: section 1, Fall 2014