Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
22
Family and Intimate relationships
Flora Klickmann
FK
called her father, Rudolph Friedrich Auguste Klickmann
, a near genius, but although she was spiritually close to him she knew little about his early life.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine, 1976.
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...
Literary Setting
Sarah Tytler
In another historical novel, Mermaidens. A Sea Story for Girls, issued by ST
through the Religious Tract Society
in 1895, the heroine, Caroline Masham, having grown up at sea on her father's ship, shows...
Material Conditions of Writing
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
This, issued as usual through the Religious Tract Society
, was based on her two years in Maritime Canada.
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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
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
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...
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Publishing
Katherine Parr
This date appears in the colophon.
Parr, Katherine. “Introductory Note”. Katherine Parr, edited by Janel M. Mueller, Scolar Press; Ashgate, 1996, p. ix - xiv.
xii
Further editions followed, and a French translation by Jean Bellemain
.29 May 1545 This text too was reprinted for the Religious Tract Society
in 1831, and is included...
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, 2000.
230: 245-6
Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, 1966–2024, 16 vols.
5
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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...
Timeline
1799: The Evangelical movement founded the Religious...
National or international item
1799
The Evangelical movement founded the Religious Tract Society
, with the object of publishing texts for the salvation of sinners.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
42-3, 36
May 1854: The Religious Tract Society launched a weekly...
Writing climate item
May 1854
The Religious Tract Society
launched a weekly family magazine for Sabbath reading entitled The Sunday at Home. It ran until October 1894, then continued as a monthly.
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1863: To discourage sensationalism in evangelical...
Writing climate item
1863
To discourage sensationalism in evangelical literature, the Religious Tract Society
laid out three essential rules for healthful fiction.
Maison, Margaret. Search Your Soul, Eustace: A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age. Sheed and Ward, 1961.
110-11
Maison, Margaret. Search Your Soul, Eustace: A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age. Sheed and Ward, 1961.
110-11
3 January 1880: The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly...
Building item
3 January 1880
The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly published by the Religious Tract Society
; it later became a monthly.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
84
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
79
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217
By 1897: The Religious Tract Society (founded in 1799)...
Writing climate item
By 1897
The Religious Tract Society
(founded in 1799) was a major international publishing house, issuing more than sixty million books, tracts, and magazines a year from repositories world-wide.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
206-7
4 April 1931: Anne Hepple, the new editor of the Religious...
Writing climate item
4 April 1931
Anne Hepple
, the new editor of the Religious Tract Society
's Woman's Magazine, wrote that the Society's aim was to divert attention from some of the cheap literature of to-day, which, along with...
1932: The Religious Tract Society renamed its publishing...