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Charles Dickens'
Minor Works
The Life of Our Lord | A Child's History of England
The Life of Our Lord
Written 1846, published 1934
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Charles Dickens wrote The Children's New Testament, a simplified version of the life of Christ, for the instruction of his children and was never meant for publication. With the death of Dickens' last surviving child, Henry Fielding Dickens, in 1933, the rights to the work were sold to the Daily Mail and published with the new title The Life of Our Lord (Davis, 1999, p. 208).
A Child's History of England
Published serially in Household Words from Jan 1851 to Dec 1853
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Joan of Arc tending her flock - by Marcus Stone
Charles Dickens' history of England from the Roman conquest in 55 BC to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when Protestant William of Orange wrested the throne from Catholic James II. Written for children with a decidedly Protestant slant, Dickens, no historian himself, relied on previously written histories including Thomas Keightley's History of England and Charles Knight's Pictorial History of England (Ackroyd, 1990, p. 583).
