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Explain with examples how print culture catered to the requirement of children.

Answer :

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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