Rebecca Onion

Rebecca Onion is Slate’s history writer and runs the site’s history blog, The Vault. She lives in Ohio. 

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Early Work

By Rebecca Onion

The childhood scribblings of writers far more famous than I can be found online in the vast attic of digital archives. Most of the juvenilia available on the Web date to the nineteenth century, when middle- and upper-class childhood was increasingly prized, and kids’ ephemera more likely to be saved. More