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Charlotte M. Yonge : Heartsease
" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a dozen times before I got through it'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Kingsley Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at home
'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [to use my eyes]...It's name was Evenings at Home, and in it was a story called "Eyes and no Eyes", a regular old-fashioned, prim, sententious story.'
