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The London Shopscape: Educating the Child Consumer in the Stories of Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Martha Sherwood
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, 2013
- pp. 28-56
- 10.1353/chl.2013.0008
- Article
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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.