Abstract

Through narratives of mothers and daughters shopping in London, Wollstonecraft's Original Stories (1788), Edgeworth's "Purple Jar" (1796), and Sherwood's A Drive in a Coach (1818) cautioned against unbridled consumerism. These Enlightenment narratives emphasize training child readers as rational, disciplined subjects pursuing responsible consumerism, salvation, and patronage in Britain's imperial city.

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