Religious Tract Society

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Publishing Katherine Parr
While it was often called The Queen's Prayers, the first edition copy used for Women Writers Online (http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu) is titled Prayers Stirryng the Mynd unto Heavenlye Medytacions collected oute of holy workes. The...
Publishing Katherine Parr
This date appears in the colophon.
Parr, Katherine. “Introductory Note”. Katherine Parr, edited by Janel M. Mueller, Scolar Press; Ashgate, p. ix - xiv.
xii
Further editions followed, and a French translation by Jean Bellemain .29 May 1545 This text too was reprinted for the Religious Tract Society in 1831, and is included...
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...
Publishing Hannah More
Of a total of 114 tracts, HM wrote fifty herself. Her sisters Sally and Patty contributed (Patty with a single tract), as did the Clapham Sect , Hester Mulso Chapone (Mary Wood the Housemaid...
Publishing Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
The year after the Religious Tract Society had printed excerpts, the seventeenth-century diary of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick , appeared in entirety for the first time, published for the Percy Society , an antiquarian group.
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Publishing Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
Passages from her writings were included by Anthony Walker when he printed his funeral sermon on her, The Virtuous Woman Found, 1678. His work was abridged as Memoir of Lady Warwick, published by...
Occupation Caroline Leakey
CL devoted a great deal of time to writing. Most of her publications were pieces for the Religious Tract Society or evangelical articles for magazines.
Publishing Caroline Leakey
In 1860 CL published Holy Living: Happy Dying in Sunday At Home. She also later wrote for the Religious Tract Society 's Girl's Own Paper.
Samuels, Selina, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 230. Gale Research.
230: 245-6
Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press.
5
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Flora Klickmann
FK married Ebenezer Henderson Smith , journalist, lay preacher, executive of the Religious Tract Society and one of the founders of the Boy's Own Paper, a widower some years older than herself.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine.
22
Publishing Flora Klickmann
FK 's The Ambitions of Jenny Ingram, A True Story of Modern London Life was published (with illustrations by J. Finnemore ) in the Girl's Library, a series put out by the Religious Tract Society
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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Family and Intimate relationships Flora Klickmann
FK called her father, Rudolph Friedrich Auguste Klickmann , a near genius, but although she was spiritually close to him she knew little about his early life.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine.
9
His parents had decided to emigrate...
Family and Intimate relationships Flora Klickmann
David Lazell calls this a marriage of companionship.FK referred to her husband in her autobiographical sketches as the Head of Affairs.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine.
22
Henderson Smith was already the father of three daughters. He retired from...
Reception Mary Howitt
The sermon was later reprinted by the Religious Tract Society under the impression that it had been written, preached, and contributed to the book by a (male) minister.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
217
Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

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Texts

Stretton, Hesba. Little Meg’s Children. Religious Tract Society, 1868.
Stretton, Hesba. Thoughts on Old Age. Religious Tract Society, 1906.
Stretton, Hesba. Under the Old Roof. Religious Tract Society, 1882.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. Kindness to Animals. Religious Tract Society, 1844.