Norcia, Megan A. <br/><br/>
X Marks the Spot :  Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (264 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mapping Imperial Hierarchies and Ruling the World -- 1 The Dysfunctional "Family of Man" -- Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland Classify Human Races in Pre-Darwinian Primers -- 2 Place Settings at the Imperial Dinner Party -- Hierarchies of Consumption in the Works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- 3 Terra Incognita -- The Gendering of Geographic Experience in the Works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H. C. Legh, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. E. Burrows, and Maria Hack -- 4 "Prisoners in Its Spatial Matrix"? -- Resisting Imperial Geography in Thirdspace -- Conclusion -- Contextualizing Archival Recovery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821443538 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Children--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.<br/>Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.<br/>Children's literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Geography in literature.<br/>National characteristics, British, in literature.<br/>Imperialism in literature.<br/>Sex role in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR115.N67 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/9287/09034