Scottish Temperance League

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Ellen Wood
The directors of the Scottish Temperance League chose EW 's novel as winner of the competition with the fervent hope and prayer that it may contribute largely to the progress of the Temperance cause and...
politics Ellen Wood
EW was Conservative in her politics, and committed to temperance although not complete abstinence. (Her first novel was the temperance-themed Danesbury House, although it must be borne in mind that she wrote it to...
Publishing Clara Balfour
The League issued the novel with the fervent hope that, through its wide dissemination, much lasting good may accrue to our common humanity.
Textual Production Clara Balfour
CB published The Burnish Family, a novel selected by the Scottish Temperance League as the best Temperance Tale.
Balfour, Clara. The Burnish Family. Scottish Temperance League, 1857.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1535 (28 March 1857): 405
Textual Production Ellen Wood
EW published the first novel she wrote, Danesbury House, for which she received a £100 prize from the Scottish Temperance League , who were also its publishers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1691 (1860): 407

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Balfour, Clara. The Burnish Family. Scottish Temperance League, 1857.
Wood, Ellen. Danesbury House. Scottish Temperance League, 1860.