Religious Tract Society

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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...
Publishing Ellen Wood
EW 's controversial novel about labour relations, A Life's Secret, appeared anonymously in The Leisure Hour, the journal of the Religious Tract Society . It did not reach volume form until late 1867.
Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2088 (1867): 569
Literary Setting Sarah Tytler
In another historical novel, Mermaidens. A Sea Story for Girls, issued by ST through the Religious Tract Society in 1895, the heroine, Caroline Masham, having grown up at sea on her father's ship, shows...
Material Conditions of Writing Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
This, issued as usual through the Religious Tract Society , was based on her two years in Maritime Canada.
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 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 Hesba Stretton
HS celebrated the passing of the Married Women's Property Act by publishing with the Religious Tract Society the short novel Under the Old Roof.
Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children. Five Owls Press.
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Publishing Hesba Stretton
The notoriously stingy Religious Tract Society gave her £30 for the copyright of this work.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Publishing Hesba Stretton
She was paid thirty-five guineas for it by the Religious Tract Society , which she rejoiced at as capital pay.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm.
82
Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children. Five Owls Press.
118
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...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
Reinforced by the success of Jessica's First Prayer and motivated by the knowledge that her living depended on her pen, HS shopped around for twelve weeks before she finally accepted the Religious Tract Society 's...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
By this year the sales of HS 's books accounted for more than one fifth of all books sold by the Religious Tract Society .
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
Literary responses Hesba Stretton
As late as the 1920s HS 's books for children were read with fascinated attention by the future poet Patricia Beer , who grew up at Exmouth in Devon in an environment rigidly controlled by...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
CS 's next book, covering much the same ground as her previous one but this time for younger readers, was Grace Darling and her Islands, published with the Religious Tract Society .
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Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
Dudley Castle followed through Darton the year after this, and MMS continued to turn out at a great rate both adult novels and improving fiction for children. She published for the Religious Tract Society ...
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.
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Timeline

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.