Religious Tract Society

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Textual Features Matilda Betham-Edwards
This man, a French Protestant condemned to the galleys as a heretic, had published authentic memoirs of his harrowing experiences in 1757. Oliver Goldsmith (who may possibly have met Marteilhe) had translated them pseudonymously into...
Textual Features Mary Frances Billington
From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving...
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 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 Emma Frances Brooke
The tract was published in London by the Religious Tract Society , whose purpose was to distribute evangelical, non-denominational tracts to the working classes, urging them to consider the sinfulness of their ways and to...
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
Following God's Gift to Two; or Margaret Redfern's Discipline, and after she had already embarked on her career as a novelist, EFB published a second and final religious pamphlet with the Religious Tract Society
Textual Production Frances Browne
FB issued with the Religious Tract Society a didactic volume entitled The Nearest Neighbour and Other Stories, apparently her last publication before her death.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Publishing Frances Browne
The final publication by FB , another illustrated tale called The First of the African Diamonds, was published posthumously by the Religious Tract Society in its Ninepenny Series.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography lists...
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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...
Publishing Rosa Nouchette Carey
The Girl's Own Paper serialized RNC 's novel Cousin Mona, which was then published as a book by the Religious Tract Society in 1897.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Crisp, Jane. Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909): A Bibliography. University of Queensland, p. iv, 48 pp.
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Publishing Rosa Nouchette Carey
For years RNC was involved with the Religious Tract Society and its journal, the Girl's Own Paper. She served as a member of the Paper's advisory body, and wrote several short novels for it...
Literary responses Rosa Nouchette Carey
Elaine Hartnell argues that the reception of RNC 's work was tied somewhat to its modes and places of publication, notably her serialisation in journals edited by Ellen Wood , Charlotte Yonge , and Annie S. Swan
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.
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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.