List of 18th-century British children's literature titles

This is a list of 18th-century British children's literature titles (ordered by year of publication):

• A Little Book for Little Children (1702) by Thomas White
• A Token for Children (1709) by James Janeway
• Divine Songs (1715) by Isaac Watts
• A Description of Three Hundred Animals (1730) by Thomas Boreman
• The Gigantick History of the Two Famous Giants (1730) by Thomas Boreman
• Winter-Evening Entertainments (1737) by Nathaniel Crouch
• The History of Fortunatus (1740) author unknown, translator Thomas Churchyard
• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) published by John Newbery
• Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744) by Mary Cooper
• The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749) by Sarah Fielding
• The Lilliputian magazine (1752) published by John Newbery
• The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) published by John Newbery
• The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (1768) by Christopher Smart
• Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1771) by Christopher Smart
• Lessons for Children (1778–79) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature (1780) by Sarah Trimmer
• Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Sacred Dramas (1782) by Hannah More
• The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse (1783) by Dorothy Kilner
• Cobwebs to Catch Flies (1783) by Ellenor Fenn
• The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–89) by Thomas Day
• Anecdotes of a Boarding School (1784) by Dorothy Kilner
• The Female Guardian (1784) by Ellenor Fenn
• A Description of a Set of Prints of Scripture History (1786) by Sarah Trimmer
• Fabulous Histories (1786) by Sarah Trimmer
• The History of Little Jack (1788) by Thomas Day
• Original Stories from Real Life (1788) by Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Parent's Assistant (1796) by Maria Edgeworth
• Adventures of a Pincushion (1780–1783) by Mary Ann Kilner
• Evenings at Home (1794–98) by John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Keeper’s Travels in Search of His Master (1798) by Edward Augustus Kendall
• The Rational Brutes (1799) by Dorothy Kilner

See also

• Books in the United Kingdom

This page was last edited on 21 September 2023, at 17:18