This time MC
succeeded in rivalling A History of England by Mrs. Markham (Elizabeth Penrose
). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sees Little Arthur's History of England as proto-Victorian in offering to children...
Textual Production
Maria Callcott
The plan was to follow the pattern of a John Murray
top seller, A History of England, written by Elizabeth Penrose
and published under the name of Mrs. Markham. Penrose, however, had followed...
