Description: Early Children's book exposing the concepts of honour and duty. The hero, Jackanapes, lays down his life for his childhood friend on the battlefield. This from the Victorian Web According to The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, the death of the young French Prince Imperial during the Zulu wars of 1879 inspired Juliana Horatia Ewing to write the wistful tale of heroic sacrifice in which the orphaned son of a Waterloo cavalry officer is brought up by his spinster aunt and eventually dies saving the life of his childhood friend on the field of battle. The principal scene of the action is the little village of Goose Green in one of England's northern counties, the scenes of battle merely being located on a plain in a hot climate. Although originally without illustrations when she published it in the 1879 Aunt Judy's Magazine, the children's journal she edited, four years later it appeared as a slender, one-shilling volume with seventeen line illustrations by the noted artist Randolph Caldecott (1846-86).
Price: 40 GBP
Location: Warminster
End Time: 2025-02-04T12:19:05.000Z
Shipping Cost: 31.99 GBP
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardback
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: London
Signed: No
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Kinowledge
Weight: 166g
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1900
Language: English
Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Heroism
Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Unit Quantity: 1
