WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Magic London cover

Magic London

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Netta Syrett
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

Children & Young Adult ReadingScience-Fiction & Fantasy

About This Book

A curious country child who recently moved to the city spends days with an eccentric godmother who turns ordinary streets into a living museum, guiding her through layers of London’s past. Each chapter visits a distinct era — Roman foundations, medieval pilgrims, Tudor and Shakespearean scenes, the Restoration, and the eighteenth century — blending gentle fiction, historical sketches, and vivid illustrations to animate landmarks, events, and everyday life, teaching urban history by transforming monuments and episodes into accessible, imaginative encounters.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Magic London

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: Magic London

Author: Netta Syrett

Illustrator: Helen Jacobs

Release date: June 2, 2021 [eBook #65490]

Language: English

Credits: MWS, Shaun Mudd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAGIC LONDON ***

THE
ROYAL ROAD
LIBRARY

MAGIC LONDON

THE ROYAL ROAD
LIBRARY

THE CARL EWALD BOOKS

Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

1. TWO-LEGS
2. THE OLD WILLOW TREE
and other Stories
6. THE POND

THE NETTA SYRETT BOOKS

3. TOBY AND THE ODD BEASTS
4. RACHEL AND THE SEVEN
WONDERS
8. MAGIC LONDON

THE W. H. KOEBEL BOOKS

5. THE BUTTERFLIES’ DAY
7. THE PAGEANT OF THE
FLOWERS

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

MAGIC
LONDON
BY NETTA SYRETT
ILLUSTRATED BY
HELEN JACOBS

THORNTON BUTTERWORTH LTD
15 BEDFORD ST. STRAND, LONDON W.C.2

Published 1922.

TO THE
LITTLE CITIZENS OF LONDON
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

May they find a “Godmother” who will take them to all the
places visited by Betty, so that, like her, they may discover
they are really living in a Magic City.

CONTENTS

CHAP.   PAGE
I Magic London 13
  Roman London
  A Fairy Tale Museum
II The Middle Ages 43
  The London of Dick Whittington
III In Tudor Days 81
  The London of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth
IV The Restoration 117
  The London of Charles II and of Mr. Samuel Pepys
V The Eighteenth Century 145
  The London of the Georges and of Dr. Johnson

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Great Fire of London (Colour) Frontispiece
She was beginning to think she liked her godmother Facing page 14
The Slave Market (Colour) " " 24
Canterbury Pilgrims (Colour) " " 72
The Royal Barge (Colour) " " 104
Charles I " " 124
The King entered, leading the Queen by the hand " " 130
A Sedan Chair (Colour) " " 160