Publishing strategies, Penny prints and Philanthropists. The rise of cheap Dutch children’s literature (1650-1900)

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In this paper I want to briefly sketch the long history of cheap penny prints for children against the background of social, economic and cultural development in the Dutch Republic. For the sake of time I will focus on a few impactful turning points and the possible changes that they broad about. But I am equally interested in the long term continuities and even counter-movements and inconsistencies. These changes and continuities demonstrate a broad range of diverging incentives to produce children’s prints, running from ideological, to commercial, to pragmatic considerations. My main argument is that the history of Dutch penny prints shows remarkable innovations in the field of children’s literature, but also suffered from the law of the inhibiting lead

Period	18 Nov 2022
Event title	Children and Cheap Print: Towards a New State of Knowledge?
Event type	Workshop
Location	Newcastle, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International