Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist.

Dickens tells the history of England in stories, from ancient times to Queen Victoria. Entertaining not only for children!

Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's characters with whom we are so familiar - orphan Oliver and cunning Fagin, snobbish Pip, spendthrift Mr Micawber, pompous Podsnap and humourless Gradgrind - grow out of his own observation. Here, Dickens and his great contemporaries - John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy - take us into the heart of what Elizabeth Barrett Browning called 'this live, throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires'. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to understand more about the world of our great novelist Charles Dickens.

A Child's History of England If you look at a world map, you will see two islands in the sea in the upper left corner of the eastern hemisphere. They are England, Scotland and Ireland. England and Scotland make up the bulk of these islands. Ireland is next in size. The small neighboring islands, which are so small on the map that they are mere dots, are mainly small chunks of Scotland, separated, dare I say, over a long period of time, by the power of restless water.

A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens covering the time of Ancient England and the Romans, right up to James the Second.

A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from 25 January 1851 to 10 December 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on 20 December 1851, the second on 25 December 1852 and the third on 24 December 1853

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.