![]() ![]() Peter Pan was first staged in 1904, E Nesbit's The Railway Children was published two years later, and then, in 1908, came Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, soon to become one of the best loved of them all. ![]() The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the first of the stories that Beatrix Potter modestly referred to as her "little books", came out in 1902 and was rapidly followed by six more. Most of what became the canon of English writing for children appeared in a mere nine years. It was the age, if not of innocence, then of Jemima Puddleduck, Peter Pan and Mr Toad. ![]() I f the Edwardian age is not remembered as a decade of social discontent and growing international tension when the cracks in the British empire began to show, but as an idyllic last summer bathed in golden sunshine, the reason is largely to be found in children's literature. ![]()
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