Children of the New Forest
Illustrated by Brock, Charles E., Gilbert, Sir. John, Hardy, Paul
When Jacob Armitage, a local verderer, hears that Parliamentary soldiers looking for King Charles I are planning to burn down the home of the Beverley orphans he saves the children and rears them as his own grandchildren in a small cottage in the woods. But can aristocratic children, used to being served, learn to survive as simple foresters?
- Publication Date
- 1847
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- Middle Grade
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- Ambleside OnlineJohn Senior
- Culture
- British Isles
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- Reformation
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