Tales from Westminster Abbey Told to Children

Very likely you have never even heard the name of Lord Shaftesbury; but as you will be sure to read and hear of him by-and-by, I will tell you a little about what he did, and wh...

You remember my telling you how Henry III. built a new shrine for Edward the Confessor. Three years after this Chapel of Edward the Confessor (as it is called) was finished, Kin...

Geoffrey Chaucer,[18] who wrote among other things a book called the “Canterbury Tales,” and who died as long ago as 1400, was one of the first English poets buried in Poets’ Co...

This chapter on the _geography_ of the Abbey, as I call it, has nothing to do with the stories which begin in the next chapter, and the only reason that I have written it at all...

A great many years ago, when I was quite a small child, I was taken with some other children over Westminster Abbey by Dean Stanley, who was then the Dean of Westminster.

have shown you how to find your way about it. In the next I shall begin telling you the stories, the first being about Lord Shaftesbury, whose monument is in the nave, where you...