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English Literature for Boys and Girls

by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall Author

(From Amazon): Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867- 1941) was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children. She was educated at a girls' boarding school called Laurel Bank, in Melrose. As is made clear by the prefaces of her books from time to time, she travelled extensively after 1904. H. E. Marshall is famous for the 1905 children's history of England, Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls, illustrated by A. S. Forrest. In the USA the book was entitled An Island Story. The book was a bestseller, was printed in numerous editions, and for fifty years was the standard and much-loved book by which children learned the history of England. The book is still to be found in schools and homes.

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Resource Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1599150895
Print Status: In Print
Chapters: 85
Pages: 496
Suggested Grades: 7th - 12th
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Copyright: 2006

Chapters

1 In the Listening Time
2 The Story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley
3 One of the Sorrows of Story-Telling
4 The Story of a Literary Life
5 The Story of Fingal
6 About Some Old Welsh Stories and Story-Tellers
7 How the Story of Arthur Was Written in English
8 The Beginning of the Reading Time
9 "The Passing of Arthur"
10 The Adventures of an Old English Book
11 The Story of Beowulf
12 The Father of English Song
13 How Caedmon Sang, and How he Fell Once on Silence
14 The Father of English History
15 How Alfred the Great Fought with His Pen
16 When English Slept
17 The Story of Havelok the Dane
18 About Some Song Stories
19 "Piers the Ploughman"
20 "Piers the Ploughman" - continued
21 How the Bible Came to the People
22 Chaucer - Bread and Milk for Children
23 Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales"
24 Chaucer - At the Tabard Inn
25 The First English Guide-Book
26 Barbour - "The Bruce," The Beginnings of Struggle
27 Barbour - "The Bruce," The End of the Struggle
28 A Poet King
29 The Death of the Poet King
30 Dunbar -- The Wedding of the Thistle and the Rose
31 At the Sign of the Red Pale
32 About the Beginning of the Theatre
33 How the Shepherd's Watched Thier Flocks
34 The Story of Everyman
35 How A Poet Comforted a Girl
36 The Renaissance
37 The Land of Nowhere
38 The Death of Sir Thomas More
39 How the Sonnet Came to England
40 The Beginning of Blank Verse
41 Spenser - The "Shepherd's Calendar"
42 Spenser - The "Faery Queen"
43 Spenser - His Last Days
44 About the First Theaters
45 Shakespeare - The Boy
46 Shakespeare - The Man
47 Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
48 Jonson - "Every Man in His Humour"
49 Jonson - "The Sad Shepherd"
50 Raleigh - "The Revenge"
51 Raleigh - "The History of the World"
52 Bacon - New Ways of Wisdom
53 Bacon - The Happy Island
54 About Some Lyric Poets
55 Herbert - The Parson Poet
56 Herrick and Marvell - Of Blossoms and Bowers
57 Milton - Sight and Growth
58 Milton - Darkness and Death
59 Bunyan - "The Pilgrim's Progress"
60 Dryden - The New Poetry
61 The First Newspapers
62 Defoe - "Robinson Crusoe"
63 Swift - The Journal to Stella
64 Swift - "Gulliver's Travels"
65 Addison - The "Spectator"
66 Steele - The Soldier Author
67 Pope - The "Rape of the Lock"
68 Johnson - Days of Struggle
69 Johnson - The End of the Journey
70 Goldsmith - The Vagabond
71 Goldsmith - "The Vicar of Wakefield"
72 Burns - The Plowman Poet
73 Cowper - "The Task"
74 Wordsworth - The Poet of Nature
75 Wordsworth and Coleridge - The Lake Poets
76 Coleridge and Southey - Sunshine and Shadow
77 Scott - The Awakening of Romance
78 Scott - "The Wizard of the North"
79 Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
80 Shelly - The Poet of Love
81 Keats - The Poet of Beauty
82 Carlyle - The Saga of Chelsea
83 Thackeray - The Cynic?
84 Dickens - Smiles and Tears
85 Tennyson - The Poet of Friendship

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