Uffelman, Larry, and Patrick Scott. “Kingsley's
Serial Novels, II: The Water-Babies,” Victorian Periodicals Review
Vol. XIX, No. 4 (Winter 1986): 122-131.
Uffelman and Scott, utilizing the Macmillan archive in the British
Library, examine the revision into book form of The Water-Babies,
first published serially from August 1862 to March 1863 in eight monthly
episodes in Macmillan’s Magazine. The revisions were extensive
and included a softening of style and mood from the adult oriented text
in Macmillan’s Magazine to one more suitable for children, a tempering
of the serial version’s anti-Americanism, and, most important, “the systematic
introduction of a new character, the old Irishwoman, to link together the
real world of the opening with the spiritual and fantasy world of the Water-Babies”
(122).
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Water-Babies;
Publication;
Macmillan’s
Magazine; Anti-Americanism. |
