Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-centur
Title page from Barbauld's Lessons for Children (1778–79)
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1791)
Title page from Rousseau's Emile (1762)
Sketch for the frontispiece for the 1791 edition of Original Stories, by William Blake. Scanned from Blake's sketch and digitally restored.
Margaret King
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Margaret King, also known as Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell and Mrs Mason, was an Anglo-Irish hostess, and a writer of female-emancipatory fiction and health advice. Despite her wealthy arist
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
