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Famous boys, and how they became great men : dedicated to youths and young men as a stimulus to earnest living.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Joseph, 1822- author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boys--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Boys.
- Adventure and adventurers--Juvenile literature.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Engineers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Engineers.
- Millionaires--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Millionaires.
- Clergy--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Clergy.
- Philosophers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Philosophers.
- Politicians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Politicians.
- Authors--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors.
- Authors--Biography.
- Politicians--Biography.
- Philosophers--Biography.
- Clergy--Biography.
- Engineers--Biography.
- Boys--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 293, 2 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Darton and Company, 1860.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Horace Greeley
- James Gordon Bennett
- George Stephenson and his son Robert, the railway kings
- Lord Brougham
- John Kitto
- Hugh Miller
- Samuel Drew
- Thomas Cooper
- William Jay
- John Philpot Curran
- Samuel Crompton
- Elihu Burritt
- Douglas Jerrold
- David Livingstone
- James Morrison
- Joseph Sturge
- Alderman Thomas Kelly.
- Notes:
- Some illustrations signed: H.S. Melville.
- "Truth is strange, stranger than fiction."
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905316916
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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