Charles dickens childrens biography of abraham

          Charles Dickens frequently told his children the Gospel Story, and made mention of the Abraham's bosom - Abraham had been a very good man who lived....

          This book, titled "Short Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys & Girls," is a rare find for collectors and enthusiasts of children's literature.

        1. Always energetic and unceasingly active, writing until the day before his death, Dickens proves to be a character as interesting as many of those he created.
        2. Charles Dickens frequently told his children the Gospel Story, and made mention of the Abraham's bosom - Abraham had been a very good man who lived.
        3. Charles Dickens was born in near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office.
        4. Dickens and childhood, much like the larger story of the Victorians and childhood, is a tale of ambivalence and contradiction.

          5. A Child's History of England

          Book by Charles Dickens

          A Child's History of England is a book by English author 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.[1] Although the volumes were published in December, each was postdated the following year.

          They bore the titles:

          • Volume I – England from the Ancient Times, to the Death of King John (1852)
          • Volume II – England from the Reign of Henry the Third, to the Reign of Richard the Third (1853)
          • Volume III – England from the Reign of Henry the Seventh to the Revolution of 1688 (1854)

          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