Children in 19th-century Russian lit

[Jenny Kaminer]

Thank you very much to all who responded to my query.

Best wishes,

Jenny Kaminer
Northwestern University

At 05:08 PM 5/14/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, as for the girls I can think of something written not in the Russian
>language, but certainly composed in and concerning children in the Russian
>Empire! Sholem Aleykhem's early installments of "Tevye der milkhiker" are
>written at the end of the 19th century (beginning in 1894) and concern
>daughters, not sons. The famous daughters are, of course, older than 10, but
>there are younger daughters in the background who might be important. Well,
>they are important: from time to time, Tevye speaks of all his daughters in
>the plural.
>
>Sasha Senderovich
>
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> > Good God, are they all BOYS? And as for girls - there's only sestritsa
> > Alyonushka?
> >
> > e.g.
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Jenny Kaminer
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA
j-kaminer at northwestern.edu

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