Databases

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood documents the changing construction of childhood, the growth of children's literature, and the legal and sociological context for both. Included are texts from Europe, Asia, North America, and North Africa. This multidisciplinary archive supports scholarly interest in topics such as immigrant children, racial and gender socialization, myths of childhood, children and religion, the changeling in Victorian literature of childhood, fairy tales and realism, acculturation of children, and death in children's fiction. Collections from the UK National Archives feature sources on child welfare and reform, education, juvenile health, and juvenile crime and detention; documents sourced from the British Library include monographs related to education as well as fiction and periodicals for children; the materials from the American Antiquarian Society include educational texts, reports on child welfare, and children's literature from various immigrant communities in the United States.