Juvenile Miscellany facts for kids
Cover, May 1827
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| Editor | Lydia Maria Child (1826-1834) Sarah Josepha Hale (1834-1836) |
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| Categories | Children's magazine |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Publisher | Putnam & Hunt |
| Founder | Lydia Maria Child |
| Year founded | 1826 |
| First issue | September 1826 |
| Final issue | December 1836 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Language | English |
The Juvenile Miscellany was a 19th-century American bimonthly children's magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts between 1826 and 1836. It was founded by Lydia Maria Child. Publishers varied over the years, but the original publisher was John Putnam. Sarah Josepha Hale edited the magazine as a monthly between September 1834 and April 1836.
Content
The magazine's content emphasized middle class Protestant values. It featured poems, stories, puzzles, and informative articles. The magazine was didactic. It provided amusement and imparted moral lessons while avoiding the piety so common in children's literature of the period.
The magazine was ground-breaking. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature writes, "The calm security of the lives of the children in the stories, the affection they receive, and their childishness were something new in American writing."
The writers who contributed to its pages included Eliza Leslie, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Hannah Flagg Gould, Sarah Josepha Hale, Caroline Howard Gilman, and Anna Maria Wells. Child herself contributed as "Aunt Maria".
