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An Old Bachelor Visits an Old Friend and His 14 Children: a Humorous Essay on Parenting

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Young characters in eighteenth-century children’s books have a reputation for being preternaturally well-behaved goody-goodies.  That stereotype probably contains some truth, but we don’t have to dig very hard to find contemporary writers besides Jane Austen who showed that  adults were … Continue reading

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