Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
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.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
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 ...
Scotland's Story is a book by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall first published in 1906 in the United Kingdom [1] and in 1910 in the United States. [2] It was reissued in 2005. [ 3 ] It is about the history of Scotland, and it also has some legends having to do with Scotland.
Ellis Island is a television miniseries, broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart , adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title .
Mysterious Island is a 1951 American 15-chapter movie serial from Columbia Pictures, the studio's 46th, that stars Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, and Ralph Hodges. It is an adaptation of Jules Verne 's 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island ( L'Île mystérieuse ).
Chapter 2 - The Money: Captain Jorgan finds Alfred Raybrock, a young sailor living on the island with his family, and gives him the letter to read. It was written by his lost brother Hugh, believed lost at sea, and reveals a story of stolen money, appearing to have been stolen by their recently deceased father, a shocking revelation they keep ...