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So ran the advertising slogan for H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines. The University of Exeter Special Collections has an early edition, complete with fold-out map pasted into the front of the book. A caption on the map reads: ‘Fac-simile of the map of the route to King Solomon’s Mines, now in the … Continue reading
Edith Nesbit’s writing continues to be of interest to readers of all sorts, including students on the English degree course at the Cornwall Campus of the University of Exeter, who study The Railway Children as part of the Women’s Writing module.
If you’re taking that module, do you agree with the writer of ‘Boys, Girls, and Trains: Ambiguous Gender Roles in E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children’, that whilst staying within the conventions of children’s literature of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods the novel also works to question strict notions of gender roles?
How do the illustrations in the Edith Nesbit gallery represent interactions between boys and girls?
Girls and Boys in Storyland 