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King Alfred of England by Jacob Abbott

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Biography of Jacob Abbott
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Jacob Abbott (14 November 1803-31 October 1879), known today primarily for his juvenile works, was born and raised in Hallowell, Maine. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he taught briefly at the Portland Academy, where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was...
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Biography of Jacob Abbott
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Jacob Abbott is remembered today primarily as the author of the "Rollo Books," the most popular fictional series for juveniles in nineteenth-century America. The books, published in two series--fourteen volumes from 1834 to 1842, and a ten-volume series...
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Biography of Jacob Abbott
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Jacob Abbott, teacher, minister, and author, is often unfairly dismissed as a representative of the flock of didactic writers who responded to demands from the American Sunday School Union and the American Tract Society for pious fare for young children....


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The knights of King Alfred
10/23/2005: 424 words, approx. 1 pages
IF THE Battle of Britain had been lost, we would all be talking German. If the Battle of Waterloo had been lost, we would all be talking French. Every English schoolchild is taught these arguments - or used to be. But it took Bernard...
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History Today
King Alfred the Great. (book reviews)
12/01/1996: 700 words, approx. 2 pages
Alfred P. Smyth Oxford University Press xxv + 744 pp. 25[pounds] As the 1100th anniversary of the death of King Alfred approaches in 1999 we can expect a spate of volumes dealing with the king and his reign, but none of them are...
 


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