Abstract
Early modern and Enlightenment children travelled. They toured, emigrated, visited family, or fled persecution. Silvia Cole, the Dutch-English granddaughter of a Huguenot, moved to London. An Austrian ambassador’s daughter read English children’s books. Colonial civil servants and military officers fathered children while posted abroad, sometimes with local women. Teachers, female and male, also travelled, whether as religious, political, or economic migrants. Writing masters travelled to the American colonies. The French Revolution spread educators across Europe. Booksellers and printers published in more than one language and advertised to colonial markets. Drawing on paratexts, life writing, manuscripts, ephemera, and marginalia, this chapter seeks commonalities of reading experiences among children living abroad or in the care of foreign teachers, exploring how booksellers catered to both groups.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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