"Children's Stories in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Tennyson" is a children's books on literature written by American children's author Henrietta Christian Wright. Wright introduces literary works by Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, John Bunyan and many others with biographical and historic notes before re-telling their writings in language for children. Table of Contents: Shakespeare—Sixteenth Century Bacon—Sixteenth Century Milton—Seventeenth Century John Bunyan—Seventeenth Century The Essay and the Poetry of the Eighteenth Century The Birth of the Novel—Eighteenth Century Jonathan Swift—Eighteenth Century History in the Eighteenth Century Johnson—Eighteenth Century The Romantic Novel—Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century Prose Nineteenth Century Poetry

When she is orphaned, the star pupil of Miss Minchin's boarding school in London becomes a penniless, friendless ward of the cruel Miss Minchin.