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Arnaud Berquin
Arnaud Berquin (September 1747 in Bordeaux – 21 December 1791) was a French children's author.
His most famous work was "L'Ami des Enfans" (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale.
The work remained popular until the middle of the nineteenth century. Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives—they did not contain fairy
Poems" (1798);
- "The Mirror of the Mind: Poems" (with an autobiography) (1810), 2 vols;
— besides translations from Arnaud Berquin and others, and some minor pieces.
She died at the age of 80 and was buried on 16 June 1854 in the parish of Hayes, Middlesex.
Bibliography.
- (Google Books)
- Sutton, C. W. (1897) "Stockdale, John", in Lee, S. (ed.) "