The Water Babies
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company / J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1916. Smith, Jessie Willcox. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2349579
Hinges weak, loss from spine head and foot.
362 pp. Color frontispiece and plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Americans, and the poor.
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