Stronger, Truer, Bolder : University of Georgia Press : 9780820358611 : 0820358614 : 15 May 2021 : Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)? and many not so famous?wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children's periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century's huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America's unique natural wonders dovetailed with children's growth as citizens, but children's journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shift