Early 19th-century Children's Literature
Lives of Learned and Eminent Men, taken from Authentic Sources, Adapted to the Use of Children of Four Years Old and Upwards. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. 12mo (2 vols). Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards; port. frontis in each; provenance: Stones (armorial bookplate upper pastedowns).
with Markham, Mrs [Penrose, Elizabeth]
A History of France with Conversations at the end of each chapter. John Murray, 1830. 8vo (2 vols). Half calf over marbled boards; frontis in both, illus to text; provenance: Stones (armorial bookplates upper pastedowns). New edition.
The main characteristic in Mrs Markham's writing was the elimination of the kind of 'horrors' which Terry Deary would later make the focus. It is perhaps striking that she is still able to produce a two volume work given the Crusades, St Bartholemew's Day and the Revolution.