Robert J. Kirkpatrick

Robert J. Kirkpatrick is the author of several books on children’s literature, including The Encyclopaedia of Boys’ School Stories (2000), From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’penny Dreadfuller: A Bibliographic History of the Boys’ Periodical in Britain 1752-1950 (2013) and The Men Who Drew for Boys (and Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children’s Books 1844-1970 (2019). He is a long-standing member of the Children’s Books History Society (and the Society’s Secretary since 2010), and has twice won the Society’s Harvey Darton Award.