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Religious Tract Society
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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. |
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 | 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... |
Publishing | Agnes Giberne | The Religious Tract Society
issued, undated, AG
's novel Gwendoline; it had already appeared from the American Sunday-School Union
in 1883 at Philadelphia as Gwendoline; or, Halcots and Halcombes. 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 |
Publishing | Agnes Giberne | The Religious Tract Society
issued another children's story by AG
, entitled Little Why-Because, with illustrations by Dudley Tennant
. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Publishing | Mary Howitt | MH
was among the authors writing for the Religious Tract Society
; after moving to Rome she became official correspondent for its periodical Leisure Hour. She and her husband both wrote shilling texts for... |
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 |
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... |
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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.