Samuels, Selina, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 230. Gale Research.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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/. |
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. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
published The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia (centred on the sisters's schooldays) through the Religious Tract Society
in 1827. Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts. 114 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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. |
Literary responses | Hesba Stretton | As late as the 1920s HS
's books for children were read with fascinated attention by the future poet Patricia Beer
, who grew up at Exmouth in Devon in an environment rigidly controlled by... |
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