Books with author Emma Marshall

An Island Story by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of England abounds through the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. This is a story book. There are many facts in school histories, that seem to children to belong to lessons only. Some of these you will not find here. But you will find some stories that are not to be found in your school books,–stories which wise people say are only fairy tales and not history.

Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867- 1941) was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children. She was educated at a girls' boarding school called Laurel Bank, in Melrose. As is made clear by the prefaces of her books from time to time, she travelled extensively after 1904. H. E. Marshall is famous for the 1905 children's history of England, Our Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls, illustrated by A. S. Forrest. In the USA the book was entitled An Island Story. The book was a bestseller, was printed in numerous editions, and for fifty years was the standard and much-loved book by which children learned the history of England. The book is still to be found in schools and homes.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

One more death shouldn’t matter. In the Roughlands, you can die a thousand different ways. In the town of Cold Harbor, between the cursed forest, the dark cliffs, and the wild and bitter sea: double that amount. But twelve-year-old Toby refuses to accept this when his own little brother mysteriously vanishes from the cellar of their home. Even when the search takes Toby to the Thicket, a tangle of slums that Cold Harbor prefers to forget...and to rumors of demonic magic. Dark in tone and vivid in storytelling, Children Without Faces holds readers long into the night. Erik Marshall weaves fantasy and suspense in Wards of the Thicket, a coming-of-age series that will grip your heart...and keep the pages turning.

This edition features the Australia and New Zealand sections of H.E. Marshall's classic history of the English Empire, "Our Empire Story", complete with all original illustrations and tables. Within these pages you'll read of the first white people to discover Australia, the police who were worse than the convicts, brave explorers, warrior Maori's and so much more.