List of 19th-Century British Children's Literature Titles
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- The History of Little Henry and his BearerThe History of Little Henry and his BearerThe History of Little Henry and his Bearer was a popular children's book written by Mary Martha Sherwood. It was continuously in print for 70 years after its initial publication and was translated into French, German, Spanish, Hindustani , Chinese, Marathi , Tamil , and Sinhalese...
(1814) - The History of the Fairchild FamilyThe History of the Fairchild FamilyThe History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood was a series of bestselling children's books in nineteenth century Britain. The three volumes, published in 1818, 1842 and 1847, detail the lives of the Fairchild children...
(3 volumes, 1818, 1842, 1847) - The History of Henry Milner (1822-1837)
- Mr Midshipman EasyMr Midshipman EasyMr. Midshipman Easy is an 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction.-Plot summary:...
(1836) - Masterman Ready, or Wreck in the Pacific (1841)
- Settlers in CanadaSettlers in CanadaSettlers in Canada is a children's novel written by Frederick Marryat. It was published in 1844 and was his twenty-first book. It is set in the wilderness of Upper Canada in the 1790s. Marryat had himself visited Canada in 1837.-Plot summary:...
(1844) - Hudson Bay; or, Everyday Life in the Wilds of North America (1848)
- The King of the Golden RiverThe King of the Golden RiverThe King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria by John Ruskin was originally written in 1841 for the twelve-year-old Effie Gray, whom Ruskin later married. It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early Victorian classic which sold out three editions...
(1851) - The Little Duke (1854)
- The Rose and the RingThe Rose and the RingThe Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published at Christmas 1854...
(1854) - The Lances of Lynwood (1855)
- Westward Ho!Westward Ho! (novel)Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley, inspired in part by an Elizabethan travelogue by privateer Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins and by the Crimean War.-Plot summary:...
(1855) - The Daisy Chain (1856)
- The Young Fur Traders (1856)
- Coral IslandCoral islandA coral island is the result of an atoll whose lagoon has dried up or been filled in with coral sand and detritus. This state is typically the last in the life cycle of an island, the first being volcanic and the second being an atoll. Most of the world's coral islands are in the Pacific Ocean...
(1857) - The Dog Crusoe (1857)
- Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s; Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842...
(1857) - Ungava: a Tale of Esquimaux Land (1857)
- Eric, or, little by littleEric, or, little by littleEric, or, Little by Little is the title of a book by Frederic W. Farrar, first edition 1858. It was published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh and London.The book deals with the descent into moral turpitude of a boy at a boarding school.The reads:...
(1858) - The South Sea Whaler (1859)
- The World of Ice (1859)
- Martin Rattler; or, a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil (1860)
- The Gorilla Hunters (1861)
- Tom Brown at OxfordTom Brown at OxfordTom Brown at Oxford is a novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861. It is a sequel to the better-known Tom Brown's Schooldays...
(1861) - Countess Kate (1862)
- Melchior's Dream and Other Tales (1862/1885)
- St. Winifred's, or, The World of School (1862)
- Water Babies (1863)
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
(1865) - The Young RajahThe Young RajahThe Young Rajah is a 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino. The film was based on the book Amos Judd by John Ames Mitchell.-Plot:...
(1865) - The Prince and the Page (1866)
- Mrs. Overtheway's RemembrancesMrs. Overtheway's RemembrancesMrs. Overtheway's Remembrances is the first children's book published by author Juliana Horatia Ewing . The book was published by George Bells and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London, and had illustrations by J.A. Pasquier and J. Wolf....
(1869) - The BrowniesThe BrowniesThe Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from Celtic mythology and traditional highland Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children, The Brownies was published in magazines and...
(1870) - At the Back of the North WindAt the Back of the North WindAt the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered around a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind....
(1871) - The Owl and the PussycatThe Owl and the Pussycat"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871.- Background :Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds...
(1871) - Through the Looking-GlassThrough the Looking-GlassThrough the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll . It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
(1871) - A Flat Iron for a FarthingA Flat Iron for a FarthingA Flat Iron for a Farthing is a book by Juliana Horatia Ewing and consists of childhood reminiscences of the only child of a widowed father. The book was one of the author's most popular books.-References:...
(1872) - The Princess and the GoblinThe Princess and the GoblinThe Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. It was published in 1872 by Strahan & Co.The sequel to this book is The Princess and Curdie....
(1872) - The Three Midshipmen (1873)
- Lob Lie-by-the-fire (1874)
- From Nowhere to the North Pole (1875)
- Six to Sixteen (1875)
- Carrots: Just a Little Boy (1876)
- The Hunting of the SnarkThe Hunting of the SnarkThe Hunting of the Snark is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was 42 years old...
(1876) - Jan of the Windmill (1876)
- The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
- A Great Emergency (1877)
- Grandmother Dear (1878)
- Jackanapes (1879)
- The Tapestry Room (1879)
- The Adventures of Herr Baby (1881)
- Daddy Darwin's Dovecoat (1881)
- The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’sThe Fifth Form at St. Dominic’sThe Fifth Form at St. Dominic's is the best known of the school stories of late 19th century author Talbot Baines Reed. The stories as well as the book were written for the Boy's Own Paper and published by the Religious Tract Society, with illustrations by Gordon Browne.Like other authors of...
(1881) - Hoodie (1881)
- The Princess and CurdieThe Princess and CurdieThe Princess and Curdie is a children's classic fantasy novel by George MacDonald from late 1883.The book is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. The adventure continues with Princess Irene and Curdie a year or two older, and having to overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning...
(1883) - Treasure IslandTreasure IslandTreasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...
(1883) - By Sheer Pluck, A Tale of the Ashanti War (1884)
- Christmas Tree Land (1884)
- Mary's Meadow (1884)
- With Clive in India (1884)
- A Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions...
(1885) - The Story of a Short Life (1885)
- KidnappedKidnapped (novel)Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis...
(1886) - A World of Girls (1886)
- The Happy Prince and Other StoriesThe Happy Prince and Other StoriesThe Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket"...
(1888) - Friday's ChildFriday's ChildFriday's Child may refer to:In music:* Friday's Child , an acoustic rock band* Friday's Child , a 2003 album by Will Young...
(1889) - Andrew Lang's Fairy BooksAndrew Lang's Fairy BooksAndrew Lang's Fairy Books — also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors — are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910...
(from 1889) - CatrionaCatriona (novel)Catriona is a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped...
(1893) - The Jungle BookThe Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six...
(1894) - Through the Sikh War, A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab (1894)
- The Carved LionsThe Carved LionsThe Carved Lions is a book by British author Mary Louisa Molesworth . The book was first published by Macmillan and Company, London.-Plot:...
(1895) - The Second Jungle BookThe Second Jungle BookThe Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont...
(1895) - Captains CourageousCaptains CourageousCaptains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...
(1897) - The Story of the Treasure SeekersThe Story of the Treasure SeekersThe Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit. First published in 1899, it tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family; its sequels are the The...
(1898) - Stalky & Co.Stalky & Co.Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly...
(1899) - The Wouldbegoods (1899)