English Literature for Boys and Girls

English Literature for Boys and Girls is a 1909 survey by H. E. Marshall (1867-1941), the Scottish writer whose Our Island Story was the best-loved children’s history of its age. Here she does for literature what that book did for history, telling the story of English writing from Beowulf and Chaucer to the Victorians as a chain of lively author-tales. Generations met Shakespeare and Bunyan first through her pages, and homeschoolers have revived the book in our own day. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.