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I first read this, I adored this and thought it was pretty much perfection, I read it over and over again, until the covers fell off my copy, I had that reaction to a lot of children's books, and I can't quite

find the enchantment again in this one, which makes me sad.
I decided to reread it after I came across a reference to it in one of the books I read for Introduction to Children's Literature.


It isn't really a very easily accessible text in some respects: rather biased, sometimes dry, rather didactic.
Historical fiction is a turnoff in itself for some people, I remember being drawn in by the characters, though some of them are a little too good to be true, but Edward is at least a bit of an idiot sometimes, overly impetuous and jumping to conclusions.
Alice and Edith are somewhat noncharacters indeed, so is Patience, actually so I'm surprised I found so much to relate to, as a child.
I suppose I didn't really care about whether the characters were male or female, Now I found the story surprisingly short on everything I was more interested in, in the later part of the book how exactly Edward gets on in the fighting, for example, and a more satisfying way of bringing all the characters together at the end.
The ending paragraph or so is quite an irritating dry summary,

Still, there is still some of the magic in learning how they become so selfsufficient, in how clever Humphrey and Pablo are, and in the forest adventures.
The stuff outside of the forest doesn't ring as true, though, It is strange when there is a connection found between dissimilar things in our everyday life, While I was reading this book by Frederick Marryat, I read on a plaque on my nightly rounds at the museum that the artist Thomas Chambers used Marryat's naval writings as an inspiration for some of his seascapes.
It shows how famous Marryat was back in thes, Now he has been forgotten, although there is much that is sweet and charming about this story oforphan children who have to make a life from scratch after their father is killed in a war between the Roundheads those in favor of Cromwell and the Cavaliers who wanted to keep the monarchy in place of England and their ancestral home is burned by the Roundheads, as their father fought for King Charles.

A kind and loyal forrester of Colonel Beverley the children's father takes them into his forest home and they are incognito as they were thought to have perished in the conflagration.
The Forrester teaches theboys andgirls how to survive and live off of the forest, Marryat is not a great wordsmith and it is simply told, the worst errors come in the conversations between the brothers, who don't talk in a natural manner, but seem to be making lists of things to each other.
The girl's characters are underdeveloped and not as interesting as the boys are so I think this would be enjoyed by boys more than by girls.
So yes, I have found Frederick Marryat'shistorical fiction novel The Children of the New Forest interesting, surprisingly readable and generally also imbued with ample textual excitement for a piece of writing penned in the midth century.
And most certainly and on an academic level, I thus do consider The Children of the New Forest as primarily being a book which I would label as being historical fiction on multiple different levels as Marryat's featured text for The Children of the New Forest is not just presenting the author's take on England during the time of King Charles I and how his royalist child protagonists escape the hue and cry and must live and survive as fugitives in the New Forest, but that histh century writing and penmanship would generally also tend to feel historical and as such equally rather dated on many different levels for modern children, for young readers from theth and thest centuries.


But while my adult reading self has actually and in fact quite enjoyed The Children of the New Forest and has found the double edged datedness intriguing, intellectually stimulating and that I do on a descriptive and historical accuracy level also much applaud Frederick Marryat for managing to retain a very authentic and realistic feeling of textual time and place and indeed, that The Children of the New Forest does therefore feel like I am emerging myself in King Charles I's time and the horrors and uncertainties of said era, even though I do have to admit that author writing style and attitudes are equally very much and obviously midth century in scope and attitude and especially so with regard to gender and social stratification and class issues, considering that Frederick Marryat did originally pen The Children of the New Forest for children, for younger readers, my socalled inner child does feel as though textually speaking, Frederick Marryat's narrative tends to drag a bit and become just too tediously descriptive and with occasional preachiness.


And indeed, the gender stratifications and Frederick Marryat's social class musings as they are often textually encountered in The Children of the New Forest and which would of course and in my humble opinion have made perfect sense to and for nineteenth century children and also have made total historical sense to and for me as an adult reader, these would definitely have made me not all that much enjoy The Children of the New Forest had I encountered and tried to read this book as a child or even as a teenager and while I do understand why some consider The Children of the New Forest as being a classic of midth century British children's literature, I would definitely tend to recommend this book more for adults than for children and more for academics than for actual reading pleasure.
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published inby Frederick Marryat, It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, The story 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.

A sort of richestoragstoriches story, set in the upheaval of the Civil War, The titular children are the offspring of a prominent Cavalier general who died at Naseby, they are further orphaned by the death of their mother, and then the story starts with Roundhead troops burning down their family home and somewhat accidentally killing their last close relative.
The children are raised in a cottage in the forest by an old retainer of their family, and much of the book centres on their adapting to forest life the eldest, Edward, learns to hunt, Humphrey becomes a crafty farmer and carpenter, and Alice and Edith learn to cook, milk cows and tend the hens.
It's all somewhat idyllic, but eventually the plot moves on and the family get drawn into the circles of the new forest Intendant, and from there the wider affairs of the world draw out Edward to war.


It's worth keeping in mind that Marryat was about as far removed from his setting as I am from Marryat's writing.
For the most part this comes through positively as distance Marryat has the good Royalist children initially filled with contempt for the Parliamentarians, but later mellows this with the introduction of a moderate Parliamentarian who was horrified by the regicide, and the lessthanflattering behaviour of some Cavaliers in the circumstances regarding Charles II's defeat at Worcester.
Other parts are less good the gypsy Pablo, for example, whom the children recover from a pit, appears to be a clumsy amalgam ofthcentury racial stereotypes from several different races, and the analogy of his 'development' by the children is a little heavyhanded.


The plot has a few encounters of interest, including several episodes in which brigands are shot dead in the midst of an armed assault on good people, and a few people wandering about in disguise.
It's not as a whole all that gripping or moving, but it can't be accused of being uneventful, and there are some fun scenes and a few little practical tips on poaching and farm work.
There is even an awful romantic misunderstanding that leads to seven years of angst though Marryat thankfully elides much of this angst in narration, so I suppose it qualifies as a romance.
This book tells the story of four children Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith, whose distinguished father Colonel Beverley is killed during the English Civil War while fighting the cause of King Charles and as a result, they become orphaned.
An old forester, Jacob Armitage, whilst walking in the woods one days hears a group of men fighting against the king aka Roundheads forging a plan to set fire to Colonel Beverley's mansion, burning everything within, meaning that the children are in mortal danger.
He immediately sets out to the grand house to warn the children's aunt and guardian, who refuses to leave the property.
He manages to persuade her that he should take the children however, and raise them as his own grandchildren while teaching them the ways of the forest so they may be able to provide for themselves whilst concealing their identities.
This is due to the king having fled, and Cromwell having England under his thumb, If the children's identities are revealed, it could be incredibly dangerous for them, The children pass some happy years in this manner with the love and tutelage of the old man, until he dies, and the children have to learn to survive on their own.


To be honest, when I started this book, I had a bit of trouble understanding how children could enjoy it.
The subject matter seemed slightly too complex, and there are not many what I call "major action sequences.
" In fact, not much goes on of much interest, apart from a few fairly exciting hunting expeditions.
It was almost what I can imagine the children of Narnia's lives to be like minus the war, wardrobe and talking animals.
There are some interesting characters, Pablo their adopted gypsy boy was quite entertaining, along with the villain of the piece whose vendetta against the Edward I quite enjoyed and the adorable old forester Jacob Armitage.
Disappointedly, the female characters seem like nonentities, with not much to say for themselves which is a shame.
Not that this book is all bad, . . the historical element is very intriguing, and I wouldn't mind learning more about this period of history.
As a classic piece of children's literature however, I think there were MUCH better books written around this time.


Please see my full review at sitelink bibliobeth. wordpress. com I was pleasantly surprised by this story, I expected it to be overly descriptive and somewhat moralizing considering when it was written, but it wasn't.
Of course, I have an early edition, which I always enjoy reading more than I do a new reprint.
One of our FAVS. Wow!!! The kids would literally cheer when it was time to read a chapter, We followed the AO schedule and took our time, Annie has said multiple times that she wished she could forget the story so she could read it all again! Excellent historical fiction!.