Religious Tract Society

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Textual Production Hesba Stretton
The following year it was reprinted by the Religious Tract Society in book form.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research.
163: 288
By the time of HS 's death in 1911, two and a half million copies of Jessica's First Prayer...
Textual Production Frances Browne
FB 's The Foundling of the Fens: A Story of a Flood appeared also in 1886 from the Religious Tract Society .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Textual Production Selina Bunbury
SB also wrote for the Religious Tract Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , and she contributed to the Christian Examiner and Cornhill Magazine. Much of this writing was anonymous. She penned...
Textual Production Selina Bunbury
SB 's works of children's and young adults' fiction were primarily religious in tone. They include The Pastor's Tales (1828), Annot and Her Pupil: A Simple Story (1829), The Blind Girl of the Moor: A...
Textual Production Flora Klickmann
At nearly fifty, FK published with the Religious Tract SocietyThe Flower-Patch Among the Hills, a set of sketches based on her own experiences at her country cottage.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine.
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Textual Production Annie S. Swan
ASS also used her new identity David Lyall for a large number of book titles, most of them novels after the first collection of essays. She published Lyall novels serially in the Leisure Hour Monthly...
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
The Religious Tract Society published Dinah Mulock 's first book, Michael the Miner, after the tradition of Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
80
Textual Production Charlotte Elliott
The Religious Tract Society published many collections and leaflets of Elliott's poems after her death, all of which are now obscure. Sixteen Poetical Leaflets appeared in 1872,
This is listed in the British Library Catalogue...
Textual Production Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Someone named Charlotte O'Brien began publishing in 1855 (when CGOB was probably not yet ten) a series of little books for children, mostly now rare. After the first, The Coral Necklace, came A Simple...
Textual Production Emma Jane Worboise
Margaret Maison , a scholar of Victorian religious fiction, argues that Worboise participated in the rise of sensationalism in evangelical fiction, and that in her later years she worked against the essential rules for healthful...
Textual Production Isabella Bird
IB followed Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan with two articles in the Contemporary Review about the persecution of Christians in Asiatic Turkey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Another travel narrative which she based on the same trip, Among the...
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
AG published with the Religious Tract Society , undated, Stories of the Abbey Precincts.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
48 (12 December 1902): 373
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS published The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia (centred on the sisters's schooldays) through the Religious Tract Society in 1827.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
114
Textual Production E. Owens Blackburne
This text is different from the publication Irish Stories held by the Belfast Central Library, Ulster and Irish Studies . Published by the Religious Tract Society in 1889, this unattributed collection of moral tales for...
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
AG published with the Religious Tract Society her undated novel entitled Profit and Loss; or, Life's Ledger.
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1799: The Evangelical movement founded the Religious...

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1799

The Evangelical movement founded the Religious Tract Society , with the object of publishing texts for the salvation of sinners.

May 1854: The Religious Tract Society launched a weekly...

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May 1854

The Religious Tract Society launched a weeklyfamily magazine for Sabbath reading entitled The Sunday at Home. It ran until October 1894, then continued as a monthly.

1863: To discourage sensationalism in evangelical...

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1863

To discourage sensationalism in evangelical literature, the Religious Tract Society laid out three essential rules for healthful fiction.
Maison, Margaret. Search Your Soul, Eustace: A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age. Sheed and Ward.
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3 January 1880: The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly...

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3 January 1880

The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly published by the Religious Tract Society ; it later became a monthly.

By 1897: The Religious Tract Society (founded in 1799)...

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By 1897

The Religious Tract Society (founded in 1799) was a major international publishing house, issuing more than sixty million books, tracts, and magazines a year from repositories world-wide.

4 April 1931: Anne Hepple, the new editor of the Religious...

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4 April 1931

Anne Hepple , the new editor of the Religious Tract Society 's Woman's Magazine, wrote that the Society's aim was to divert attention from some of the cheap literature of to-day, which, along with...

1932: The Religious Tract Society renamed its publishing...

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1932

The Religious Tract Society renamed its publishing imprint for books and magazines the Lutterworth Press .

Texts

Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
Brooke, Emma Frances. God’s Gift to Two; or Margaret Redfern’s Discipline. Religious Tract Society, 1883.
Browne, Frances. The Dangerous Guest: A Story of 1745. Religious Tract Society.
Browne, Frances. The First of the African Diamonds. Religious Tract Society, 1887.
Browne, Frances. The Nearest Neighbour and Other Stories. Religious Tract Society, 1875.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Michael the Miner. Religious Tract Society, 1846.
Elliott, Charlotte. Leaves from the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott. Religious Tract Society, 1874.
Elliott, Charlotte, and Eleanor Babington. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott. Religious Tract Society, 1873.
Giberne, Agnes. Gwendoline. Religious Tract Society, 1885.
Giberne, Agnes. Jock with Mousie. Religious Tract Society, 1928.
Giberne, Agnes, and Dudley Tennant. Little "Why-Because". Religious Tract Society, 1907.
Giberne, Agnes. Profit and Loss. Religious Tract Society, 1909.
Giberne, Agnes. Stories of the Abbey Precincts. Religious Tract Society, 1902.
Klickmann, Flora. Mending Your Nerves. Religious Tract Society, 1924.
Klickmann, Flora, and Joseph Finnemore. The Ambitions of Jenny Ingram. Religious Tract Society, 1905.
Klickmann, Flora. The Flower-Patch Among the Hills. Religious Tract Society, 1916.
Klickmann, Flora. The Lure of the Pen. Religious Tract Society, 1919.
Klickmann, Flora. The Shining Way. Religious Tract Society, 1923.
Leakey, Caroline. Fine Weather Dick, and Other Sketches. Religious Tract Society, 1882.
Leakey, Caroline. God’s Tenth. Religious Tract Society, 1861.
Smedley, Constance. Grace Darling and her Islands. Religious Tract Society, 1934.
Smedley, Constance. The Emotions of Martha. Religious Tract Society, 1911.
Stretton, Hesba. Enoch Roden’s Training. Religious Tract Society, 1865.
Stretton, Hesba. Fern’s Hollow. Religious Tract Society, 1864.
Stretton, Hesba. Jessica’s First Prayer. Religious Tract Society, 1867.