A Child's History of England

1853

Dickens's history for young readers, written for his own children and published in Household Words from 1851. Thirty-seven chapters run from the Romans to the Glorious Revolution, delivered in his own voice and with his own opinions of the kings firmly attached.

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
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
Chapter XXII England Under Henry the Sixth
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
Chapter XXVIII England Under Henry the Eighth
Chapter XXIX England Under Edward the Sixth
Chapter XXX England Under Mary
Chapter XXXI England Under Elizabeth
Chapter XXXII England Under James the First
Chapter XXXIII England Under Charles the First
Chapter XXXIV England Under Oliver Cromwell
Chapter XXXV England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch
Chapter XXXVI England Under James the Second
Chapter XXXVII