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Explain with examples how print culture catered to the requirement of children.
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Points to remember :
- Primary education became important.
- Children’s press was set up in France in 1857. Folktales and fairy tales were printed.
- Grimm brother’s printed folk tales.
- Unsuitable or vulgar content was removed from children’s books.
- Women began reading and writing too.
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- Primary education became compulsory and children became important category of readers.
- A children’s press set up in France in 1857, only for Children’s Literature.Fairy tales and folk tales were published by this press.
- In 1812, Grimm Brothers in Germany published a collection of stories and folk tales that they had gathered from peasants.
- Print recorded old tales but also changed them in a way, that the things that were thought as vulgar or unsuitable for children were not included in the stories.
- Women also became important readers and writers. Best known female novelists : Jane Austen, Bronte Sisters and George Eliot.
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