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.
9
His parents had decided to emigrate...
Family and Intimate relationships
Flora Klickmann
David Lazell calls this a marriage of companionship.FK
referred to her husband in her autobiographical sketches as the Head of Affairs.
Lazell, David. Flora Klickmann and her Flower Patch. Flower Patch Magazine.
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Henderson Smith was already the father of three daughters. He retired from...
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
Rosa Nouchette Carey
For years RNC
was involved with the Religious Tract Society
and its journal, the Girl's Own Paper. She served as a member of the Paper's advisory body, and wrote several short novels for it...
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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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...
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...
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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.
May 1854: The Religious Tract Society launched a weekly...
Writing climate item
May 1854
The Religious Tract Society
launched a weeklyfamily magazine for Sabbath reading entitled The Sunday at Home. It ran until October 1894, then continued as a monthly.
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.
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.
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.
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...