local_library Cradock Nowell, A Tale Of The New Forest Vol1 Cradock is banished by his father following the suspicious death of his twin brother. R D Blackmore 1886 330 Expand ⏷ Cradock Nowell Volume 1: A tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the suspicious death of Cradock's twin brother Clayton. Extract Volume 1: The good nurse fell against a chest of drawers, as she uttered this loud lament. The colour ebbed from her cherry cheeks, and her sturdy form shook with terror. She had scarcely turned her back, she could swear upon her precious charges, and now-only look at the murder of it!" Read Book
local_library Cradock Nowell, A Tale Of The New Forest Vol2 Cradock is banished by his father following the suspicious death of his twin brother. R D Blackmore 1886 321 Expand ⏷ Cradock Nowell Volume 2: A tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the suspicious death of Cradock's twin brother Clayton. Extract Volume 2: "What, you here again, you white-livered young sneak!" cried Issachar Jupp, reeling in at the door, just as Cradock was coming out. "Take that, then" and he lifted a great oak bludgeon, newly cut from the towing-path of the Basingstoke Canal. If Cradock had not been as quick as lightning and caught the stick over the bargeman's shoulder, there would have been weeping and wailing and a lifelong woe for Amy." Read Book
local_library Cradock Nowell, A Tale Of The New Forest Vol3 Cradock is banished by his father following the suspicious death of his twin brother. R D Blackmore 1886 324 Expand ⏷ Cradock Nowell Volume 3: A tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the suspicious death of Cradock's twin brother Clayton. Extract Volume 3: Although the South–Western Railway had been open so many years, our forest–child had never been further from green leaf and yellow gorse than Winchester in the eastern hemisphere, and Salisbury in the western. And now after all to think that she was going to London, not for joy, but sorrow. Read Book
local_library The Children Of The New Forest Four orphaned children hide in The New Forest from Roundhead oppressors. Capt Frederick Marryat 1848 252 Expand ⏷ Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 to 1848). The date is 1647. The story is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land. The Children of the New Forest was one of the first historical novels written for a young audience. It was particularly successful in fixing the image of the English Civil War as a quarrel of opposites, with dour Roundheads versus swashbuckling Cavaliers. Read Book
local_library The New Forest Spy A period adventure story from a prolific novalist. George Manville Fenn 1885 195 Expand ⏷ George Manville Fenn (1831 to 1909). Young Walter Froy is out fishing when he discovers and rescues a mallnourished Jacobite French boy, Godfrey Boyne. From this meeting trouble ensues as it involves the village constable and units of the army. More info here: https://archive.org/details/GM_Fenn_The_New_Forest_Spy Read Book
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