Religious Tract Society

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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
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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.