Abstract
Between 1794 and 1817 Priscilla Wakefield wrote seventeen books, mainly for children and young people. Five of these concern natural history, and they are among the earliest and most popular adaptations of botany and entomology for the emergent market of juvenile publishing at that time. Priscilla Wakefield's natural history books set scientific material within a narrative parenthesis of moral and spiritual comment. Their success is surely due to the format, which combines science education with general education, substance with cultural attitudes. Mrs Wakefield appears to have offered no affronts to the pockets of middle-class and upper-middle-class taste which formed her readership and which produced the buyers of her books. Accord ingly, to read her natural history books is to study the socio-cultural fabric as she saw it and as she would have had it be.
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