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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (usually credited as H. E. Marshall; 9 August 1867 – 19 September 1941) was a Scottish writer, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children. She is best known for her 1905 work Our Island Story, which was published abroad as An Island Story: A Child's History Of England.
Media related to Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall at Wikimedia Commons Full text e-book of An Island Story (1920 U.S. edition) (note that the 1953 edition continued to the First World War). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall; Our Island Story public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Amy Ella Blanchard was a lifelong companion of her artist collaborator Ida Waugh (1846-1919). [3] [8] They met when Waugh was still living with her parents and Blanchard was hired as tutor of Waugh's younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh.
Indeed, with no money or roads parts of Scotland were more akin to the 8th century than 18th. Once Johnson reached the West Highlands, there were few roads, none at all on the Isle of Skye, and so they traveled by horseback, usually along the ridge of a hill with a local guide who knew the terrain and the best route for the season. "Journies ...
The book is a parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. [5] It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was ...
Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894. It contains three stories: "The Beach of Falesá" "The Bottle Imp" "The Isle of Voices"
The Lonely Island returned to SNL for its 50th season, most recently with "Here I Go," which costarred Charli XCX. Watch the full "Daiquiri Girl" episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers ...
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