Religious Tract Society

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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 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 Agnes Giberne
Two of the early books which AG wrote for the RTS were, as the titles explained, for very little children. Their dates, like those of many of her later works, are conjecturally supplied in the...
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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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 Jane Ellen Harrison
At some point during her studies at Cheltenham Ladies' College, JEH 's first printed literary effort appeared: Praying for Rain was published by the Religious Tract Society .
This is absent, however, from standard...
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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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.
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...
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.
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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.