Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.

Three stories popular with young people in the late ninteenth century that present the English manner and temper of the time.

Two stories about nineteenth-century English children. In the first two boys run away in search of adventure as sailors and in the second five children learn to turn their bad tempers into good will.

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The narrator of this book is asked by his wife to tell their children the tale of how he once bought A Flat Iron for a Farthing, and he does so, along the way recounting his motherless childhood in the countryside, education and upbringing at the hands of the steadfast Nurse Bundle, friendship with the neighborhood Rector, boundless love for his red and white spaniel Rubens, and antics with his five female cousins from London. These musings on youth are at once poignant and humorous, and show their owner to possess an inquisitive mind and sympathetic spirit. The reader also comes to learn that, despite the seeming insignificance of a flat iron, it is an object that may hold far more meaning than one might at first have guessed.

Little Leonard is thrilled when a military training camp is erected near his home and enjoys meeting soliers and involving himself in its activities until his early death.

In nineteen-century England, two boys run away in search of adventure as sailors.

In a 19th century English village, the high-spirited boy, orphaned at the Battle of Waterloo, rode his pony across the green, obedient to his aunt but creating scrapes she never thought to forbid him. He later joined the British Army and gave his life in battle to save his best friend.