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Benjamin Franklin made a suggestion for "members of the Junto (middle-class social and literacy club in Philadelphia) to share their books with other members."
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Most of the literature for children was religious.
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Medical knowledge developed fast and young people stopped working so early in their lives.
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The Sunday and Adulto School Union changed its title to American Sunday School Union.
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New York governor wanted school districts libraries to be established and also wanted to use "school buildings for public libraries."
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In 1830 they offered Sunday School lessons that taught religion, while teaching mathematics, grammar, history, and job-related skills to young people.
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For the next 40 years, the American Sunday School Union was best known for its heavily moralistic fiction.
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New Enland established libraries similar to those which Benjamin Franklin established.
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Susan Warner wrote the first domestic novel, "The Wide, Wide World", which 40 years later "was said to be one of the four most widely read books in U.S., along with the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", and "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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"The Wide, Wide World" was in it's 14th printing and was translated into French, German, Swedish, and Italian.
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Abortive meeting in the world's first professional journal for librarians (Library Journals).
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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his publisher bitterly lamenting the state of American Literature."
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Harvard use, as alternative books for examination, Milton's "Comus" and Shakespeares "Julius Caesar."
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"Malaeksa: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter" was republished by Erastus and Irwin Beadle brothers and it was "while domestic novels took women by storm, dime novels performed almost the same miracle for men."
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It was republished by Erastus and Irwin Beadle brothers and it was "while domestic novels took women by storm, dime novels performed almost the same miracle for men."
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1000 libraries were spreaded across United States.
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A Unitarian minister ordainer, son of an Unitarian clergyman and who also graduated form Harvard at 18, served a Brewster churh in Massachusets. In 1866 he left "scandals and claims of sodomy" in the church. Then moved to NY, started to write full time, and sent to "Student and Schoolmate", and Oliver Optic magazines, "Kagged Dick; or, Street Life in New York."
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Thomas Niles made a suggestion to Loaisa May Alcott and told her to "write A Girl's Book, to compete with the "reigning young adult writer of the time", Oliver Optic. Later, he reminded her that she had agreed to try. Then she sent a manuscript of "A Girls Book" and the first part of "Little Women." "A Girls Book" was published in September 30, 1868. For "Little Women" "sales were good" and "was favorably reviewed." The same year in November Alcott started to work with the second part.
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Augusto Jane Evans Wilson made Warners' popularity raised, because of "St. Elmo."
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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson made Warners' popularity raised, because of "St. Elmo."
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"Ragged Dick" was published and successful.
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"Little Women" was published.
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They "lost most of their readership to" the written work of Horatio Alger, Louisa May Alcott's prose, and some "writers of dime, or domestic novels."
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It was going to continue, like they never did in 1853
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List of three common objections to the public libraries by William Poole.
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This meeting was devoted to "Novel Reading" mostly about young people's reading.
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Came the major report document from United States Bureau of Education that had the "Public Libraries in the United States of America, Their History, Condition and Management.
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"Library Journal" early issues made an illustration of the many librarians that hated dime novels for their immorality, but it seems like dime novels were moral.
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"Conference of librarians that formed the American Library Association." Melvil Dewey was the responsible of the conference and was the assistant in the Amherst College Library.
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The first School of Library Economy was Established by Columbia College.
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English became an accepted discipline in the schools.
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Street Crash, Great Depression and President Hoover came. Young people out of school and unemployed.
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High school libraries were standarized across the United States.
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The term "junior" and "juvenile" was applied to young adult literature.
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Country separated by gaps: racial, technological, cultural and economic.
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Changes and Growth in YAL popular series book died.
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The University of London Press published an abridged edition in England.
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Pwight L. Burton wrote he first criticism of YA novels. Richard S. Alm wrote critical of YA novels in 1955.
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Paperback came a part of young adult's lives.
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The book was republished by the Feminist Press.
