Charles Dickens 
Master Humphrey’s Clock 

This volume combines two titles of great biographical interest. The weekly miscellany, ‚Master Humphrey’s Clock, ‚ besides providing the original setting for ‚The Old Curiosity Shop‘ and ‚Barnaby Rudge, ‚ was the scene of Dickens’s revival of Mr. Pickwick and the Wellers. ‚A Child’s History of England‘ is not representative of Victorian schoolroom history: filled with distrust for the ‚good old days, ‚ writes Derek Hudson in the Introduction, it gives ‚an unsparing picture of prolongued wickedness in high places, exposed with lurid detail and much rough sarcasm.‘