Nonfiction · 1851
A Child’s History of England
A brisk, plainly opinionated march through English history from the Roman invasion to the Glorious Revolution and its aftermath, told chapter by chapter through the reign of each monarch in turn — heroes praised, villains condemned, and no shortage of the author's own strong views on which was which.
Charles Dickens wrote A Child's History of England for his own children, serializing it in his magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853 before collecting it in book form; conceived as a livelier alternative to dry schoolroom textbooks, it remained a popular introduction to English history for younger readers well into the twentieth century.
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Contents
- Chapter I — Ancient England and the Romans
- Chapter II — Ancient England Under the Early Saxons
- Chapter III — England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred
- Chapter IV — England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings
- Chapter V — England Under Canute the Dane
- Chapter VI — England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, and Edward the Confessor
- Chapter VII — England Under Harold the Second, and Conquered by the Normans
- Chapter VIII — England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror
- Chapter IX — England Under William the Second, Called Rufus
- Chapter X — England Under Henry the First, Called Fine-Scholar
- Chapter XI — England Under Matilda and Stephen
- Chapter XII — England Under Henry the Second
- Part the First
- Part the Second
- Chapter XIII — England Under Richard the First, Called the Lion-Heart
- Chapter XIV — England Under King John, Called Lackland
- Chapter XV — England Under Henry the Third, Called, of Winchester
- Chapter XVI — England Under Edward the First, Called Longshanks
- Chapter XVII — England Under Edward the Second
- Chapter XVIII — England Under Edward the Third
- Chapter XIX — England Under Richard the Second
- Chapter XX — England Under Henry the Fourth, Called Bolingbroke
- Chapter XXI — England Under Henry the Fifth
- Part First
- Part Second
- Chapter XXII — England Under Henry the Sixth
- Part the First
- Part the Second — The Story of Joan of Arc
- Part the Third
- Chapter XXIII — England Under Edward the Fourth
- Chapter XXIV — England Under Edward the Fifth
- Chapter XXV — England Under Richard the Third
- Chapter XXVI — England Under Henry the Seventh
- Chapter XXVII — England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal and Burly King Harry
- Part the First
- Chapter XXVIII — England Under Henry the Eighth
- Part the Second
- Chapter XXIX — England Under Edward the Sixth
- Chapter XXX — England Under Mary
- Chapter XXXI — England Under Elizabeth
- Part Second
- Part Third
- Chapter XXXII — England Under James the First
- Part Second
- Chapter XXXIII — England Under Charles the First
- Part Second
- Part Third
- Part Fourth
- Chapter XXXIV — England Under Oliver Cromwell
- Part Second
- Chapter XXXV — England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch
- Part Second
- Chapter XXXVI — England Under James the Second
- Chapter XXXVII
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About the author
1812–1870 · Victorian
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born at Portsmouth and worked as a child in a blacking factory while his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience he drew on for the rest of his life. A parliamentary reporter by twenty, he became the most popular novelist in English with The Pickwick Papers (1836–37) and never lost that place: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861) followed. He died at Gad’s Hill, Kent.
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