Jacob Abbott Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 11 pages of information about the life of Jacob Abbott.

Jacob Abbott Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 11 pages of information about the life of Jacob Abbott.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott is remembered today primarily as the author of the "Rollo Books," the most popular fictional series for juveniles in nineteenth-century America. The books, published in two series--fourteen volumes from 1834 to 1842, and a ten-volume series from 1853 to 1858--center on the intellectual and moral development of Rollo Holiday, who became the first truly popular child character in American fiction. Besides the Rollo Books, Abbott created eleven other juvenile-fiction series and wrote or cowrote more than two hundred books in all, including works on popular history, science, education, and child rearing. Before becoming an author, Abbott was a Congregational minister and a pioneer educator, directing a progressive and hugely successful school for girls in Boston from 1829 to 1833. While there he wrote The Young Christian; or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Duty (1832), one of the earliest American "best-sellers" to achieve popularity on both sides of the Atlantic...

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