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The Juvenile Spectator:: Part The Second. Containing Some Account Of Old Friends, And An Introduction To A Few Strangers - Softcover

Arabella Argus

 
9780371853764: The Juvenile Spectator:: Part The Second. Containing Some Account Of Old Friends, And An Introduction To A Few Strangers

Synopsis

The Juvenile Spectator: Part The Second, by Arabella Argus, is a 19th-century juvenile miscellany that continues the persona of Goody Argus, a grandmotherly instructress who writes to and about children. Framed as prefatory notes, letters from readers, and episodic chapters, it surveys the foibles and virtues of a lively circle of young people, including Goody Argus’s former readers and new acquaintances. Through comic dialogues and moral anecdotes, the text advocates humility, kindness to servants, patience, truthfulness, and dutiful conduct while critiquing pride, caprice, and selfishness. The book features affectionate portraits of Miss Wilmot, the Mordaunts, the Bentleys, and other juvenile correspondents, utilizing a juvenile press corps—Peeper, Testy, and others—to stage conversations about education and propriety. This collection exemplifies early 19th-century didactic children’s literature.

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