It's always so weird looking through older childrens books
This is one that my grandma gave to me when I was little (that's been used a LOT since I'm the oldest of nine lol. Most of the stories in the book are from before the 1940s). As a child I didn't find it weird at all that the father was forcing his young daughter to sleep with the creepy boy frog but now I read it and am just like... "Why?" 😂
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@Dshhh Some indeed do show what we now recognise as bigotry, or at least very patronising ideas, but it was not seen as such at the time.
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Book pictures "worthy of framing".
Yes if copied (assuming out of copyright or for private use only).
NO and THRICE NO, if simply cut from the book. (Vandalism a second-hand bookseller told me does befall old books from time to time. Presumably, having ruined the book, the buyer merely throws the rest of it away.)
@ArishMell yeah break no books, but my cousin salvages art from ruined books. The pic in thwell past copywrite. it is very true, that what used to be acceptable w Time changes.
@ArishMell they do. This can be said of many of the big minds of the past. But i hold that we cannot condem, the past, especially since many worked so hard to advance, Jefferson, the slave owner gave us,"all men are created equal" i will not toss him out because of his adherance to the normal of the day.
@Dshhh I think you are right. The 19C saw a lot of cruelty of which much was based on what we now see as ignorance; but as you say, many even then did recognise the wrongs and strove to right them.
