ABSTRACT
In view of the role established for crusader medievalism in nineteenth-century Britain in the previous chapter, this section examines examples of juvenile literature on the crusades written by popular authors with an avowed interest in educating youth: namely, Charlotte M. Yonge, George A. Henty and Henry Newbolt. Their books follow the lead of Walter Scott’s crusading novel, The Talisman (1825), and exhibit the moral, imperial and chivalric concerns of their authors, all expressed through the vehicle of a crusading narrative.
