Carpenter, Humphrey, <br/><br/>
Secret gardens :  a study of the golden age of children's literature /  [print] 
Humphrey Carpenter. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  (c)1985. 
 - xi, 235 pages, 12. pages of plates :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
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<br/><br/> Preface  --  Prologue : The road to Arcadia --  Arrears of destruction --  Parson Lot takes a cold bath : Charles Kingsley and The water babies --  Alice and the mockery of God --  George MacDonald and the tender grandmother --  Louisa Alcott and the happy family --  Arcadians --  Bevis, the pioneer --  Kenneth Grahame and the search for Arcadia --  E. Nesbit : a Victorian in disguise --  Beatrix Potter : the ironist in Arcadia --  wind in the willows --  J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan : "That terrible masterpeice" --  A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh : farewell to the enchanted places  --  Epilogue : The garden revisited  --  Notes and references  --  Index. 
<br/><br/> Examines the lives and writings of the Golden Age authors--from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780395352939 9780395573747 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85005213 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Children--Great Britain--Books and reading.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR990 PR990.C295.S437 1985