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A Child's History of England, Paperback / softback Book

A Child's History of England Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

Although the volumes were published in December, each was postdated the following year.

Dickens dedicated the book to "My own dear children, whom I hope it may help, bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject".

The history covered the period between 50 BC and 1689, ending with a chapter summarising events from then until the accession of Queen Victoria.[2] In a letter to his friend Douglas William Jerrold, Dickens confessed that he was composing the book so that he could prevent his children from embracing conservatism:I am writing a little history of England for my boy.

For I don't know what I should do, if he were to get hold of any conservative or High Church notions; and the best way of guarding against any such horrible result is, I take it, to wring the parrots' neck in his very cradle.

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