Didn't we have this discussion before?
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Young adult may refer to:- * Young adult (psychology), persons aged 18 to 39
- * Young adult fiction, works targeted to ages 12 to 18
- * Youth, aged around 15 to 25.
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The same word can mean many things... The history was interesting:
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The first recognition of young adults as a distinct group was by Sarah Trimmer, who in 1802 described "young adulthood" as lasting from ages 14 to 21.[citation needed] In her self-founded children's literature periodical, The Guardian of Education, Trimmer introduced the terms "Books for Children" (for those under fourteen) and "Books for Young Persons" (for those between fourteen and twenty-one), establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that remain in use today[1]. However, nineteenth-century publishers didn't specifically market to young readers, and adolescent culture didn't exist in a modern sense. Nonetheless, there were books published in the nineteenth century that appealed to young readers (Garland 1998, p. 6):
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