Writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature
Sarah Trimmer painted by Henry Howard
Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby; 6 January 1741 – 15 December 1810) was a writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature, as well as an educational reformer. Her periodical, The Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century.
Trimmer was also an active philanthropist. She founded several Sunday schools and charity schools in her parish. To further these educational projects, she wrote textbooks and manuals for women interested in starting their own schools. Trimmer's efforts inspired other women, such as Hannah More, to establish Sunday school programs and to write for children and the poor.
Trimmer's works are dedicated to maintaining many aspects of the social and political status quo. As a high church Anglican, she was intent on promoting the established Church of England and on teaching young children and the poor the doctrines of Christianity. Her writings outlined the benefits of social hierarchy, arguing that each class should remain in its God-given position. Yet, while supporting many of the traditional political and social ideologies of her time, Trimmer questioned others, such as those surrounding gender and the family.
SarahTrimmer (née Kirby; 6 January 1741 – 15 December 1810) was a writer and critic of 18th-century British children's literature, as well as an educational...
18th-century educationalist, children's author, and Sunday school advocate SarahTrimmer and was published from June 1802 until September 1806 by J. Hatchard...
He was the son of Joshua Kirby Trimmer of Brentford, and grandson of SarahTrimmer (1741–1810), author of the Story of the Robins (1786). At the age of...
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radio programs, and ... the novel" for young adults. All the same SarahTrimmer in 1802 recognized young adults as a distinct age group describing "young...
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inconsistencies we confess, afforded us much entertainment." Since the reviewer, SarahTrimmer, was born in 1741, that would date back the rhyme's earlier version...
Enlightenment, women also began producing popular scientific works themselves. SarahTrimmer wrote a successful natural history textbook for children entitled The...
(later known as The Story of the Robins) is the best-known work of SarahTrimmer. Originally published in 1786, it remained in print until the beginning...
governess as her own companion. The governess was Miss Selina Trimmer, the daughter of Mrs SarahTrimmer, a well-known and respected author of moral tales for...
Enlightenment, women also began producing popular scientific works. SarahTrimmer wrote a successful natural history textbook for children titled The...
by children's writers such as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ellenor Fenn, SarahTrimmer, and Dorothy Kilner all embrace this ethos, although they differ radically...
successful managers of Ipswich Town. Ipswich was the birthplace in 1741 of SarahTrimmer, née Kirby, writer and critic of children's literature and among the...
Lancaster and Bell, divisions appeared between their advocates. In 1805, SarahTrimmer published a paper claiming Lancaster's system was antagonistic to the...
The Children's Crusade Rose Tremain (born 1943), historical novels SarahTrimmer (1741–1810), Fabulous Histories Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), Barchester...
was the son of topographer John Kirby, and the father of the writer SarahTrimmer and the entomologist William Kirby. In 1760 he moved to Kew, where he...
George Whitefield – A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley January 6 – SarahTrimmer, English writer for children (died 1810) January 16 – Hester Thrale...
Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (born 1764) December 15 – SarahTrimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741) O'Neill, Michael (2004)...
to write on a similar high standard". In fact, because of Barbauld, SarahTrimmer and Hannah More were inspired to write for poor children as well as...
clear and penetrating Judgment." Writers as politically dissimilar as SarahTrimmer, in her periodical The Guardian of Education (1802–06), and Maria Edgeworth...
Princess Amelia, member of the Royal Family (born 1783) 15 December – SarahTrimmer, writer for children (born 1741) probable – William Cruickshank, Scottish...
April 2013 Grenby, M.O. "'A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things': SarahTrimmer and The Guardian of Education." Culturing the Child, 1690–1914, ed....
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