When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
FOR LONDONERS , the middle years of the 1660s were a time when the Horsemen of the Apocalypse seemed to have run riot. Plague, a familiar menace, struck in 1665 with a virulence never experienced before or since. The following year came "the Great...
By Stephen J. Pyne. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001 xvii + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $18.95. By Stephen J. Pyne. New York: Viking, 2001. xiii + 322 pp. Plates, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $25.95. Fire: A Brief History...
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