Nineteenth-century children became published authors in record numbers, offering innovative contributions to the new media of their day. As my study shows, with the rise of celebrity authorship, children\u2019s literacy, and the information age, the trend toward publishing nineteenth-century children\u2019s writing was far more commonplace and widespread than has been previously recognized. When we read children\u2014in their own words\u2014we find vital and often surprising documentation of children\u2019s views on death and mortality, work and literary labor, and literacy and storytelling.\u00a0
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