Children's Games During The 1800s

It was difficult at firs to find games during the Romantic period. I did look up children’s games during the 1800s, since that is the time period of romanticism. I found that children often played table games, such as dominoes, tiddlywinks, pickup sticks, and cards. Tiddlywinks was played by using a disk called a shooter to flip smaller disks called winks into a cup that sits in the middle of the playing area. I learned that board games also became more of a pastime during the 1800s. There was Teetotum, which was what was used instead of a dice. Kids played Morality games, which were used to improve children’s minds. And there were education games as well, that focused on subjects like literature, history, and science. I also found that children

Children’s literature began to develop since more children were learning to read. Children became a new outlet for booksellers and therefore, the publisher John Newberry began publishing children’s books in the 1740’s. Literacy rates were growing higher for children. For children’s literary, Newberry played a big part in it. He produced what is considered the first children’s novel, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, which is about a little orphan named Margery, who goes through life with onl one shoe until a rich man gives her a complete pair. She later becomes a teacher and marries a local landowner because she possesses honesty, she’s a hardworker and has good sense. He also produces a magazine called, The Lilliputian Magazine, that would be filled with stories, verse, riddles, and eidtorials. Boys were taught biographies of “Great Men, which incited them to explore, conquer, and reap profit from the outside world.” Girls were taught more domestic duties and how to be modest and compliant. For higher-up families, the children were taught and raised by a governess, who would educate them and teach them how to behave. But working-class children received their education from “various types of informal schools.” School was not legally mandated a tthis time and therefore not all children received education. I also read that churches started education poor children and that women ran ‘dame

It seems as if the classical music from the Romantic period was more amplified. I learned that the classical music would have tunes that got longer and stronger, with louds that get louder and quiets that get quieter, the mood changes are bigger and happen more often (which I think coincides with the fact that romanticism brought about putting more emotion into things), the orchestras got bigger, and the music went on longer. I learned that Beethoven was a composer from the period, along with Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, and Franz Liszt. I tried to see if I could find lullabies or something from the period and I did find a website that presented lots of songs, though it didn’t state what period the songs were from (they included ‘A Hunting We Will Go’ and the like). Since I couldn’t find songs that were specific to children but I think that with how important this classical music was, children probably listened to it as well. Especially ones from higher-class families. I thought it was interesting that even though classical music had been around, it too had changed during the Romantic