The hostages
Subtitle: and other stories for boys and girls
By: illustrated by Logi Southby.
Publisher: Cape
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Description: Nine stories about boys and girls living between the 4th century B.C. to the 11th century A.D., "in a kind of frame-work of history, showing what happened between each story and also where they happened.... There are Greeks, Romans and barbarians, sometimes early Britons, Byzantines, inheritors of both Greece and Romne, and finally some English of the time of the Norman conquest." -- Jacket flap.
Notes: At head of title: Naomi Mitchison.
Table of contents: title: Nuts in May.; title: The hostages.; title: A little girl lost.; title: Cottia went to Bibracte.; title: Quintus getting well.; title: Maiden castle.; title: In patria potestate.; title: Bread and water.; title: The first breaking of England.