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 | 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 | |
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
. Dated from... |
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 | 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 | 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. 129 |
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. 199 |
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... |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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. |
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. 40 |
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