Children of the New Forest

…historical fiction, with Frederick Marryat’s Children of the New Forest (1847), a story of the English Civil War; and of the manly open-air school novel, with Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days (1857). A prominent milestone in the career of the “realistic” children’s family novel is Holiday House (1839), by…

…children’s books, among which The Children of the New Forest (1847), a story of the English Civil Wars, is a classic of children’s literature. A Life and Letters was prepared by his daughter Florence (1872).