Religious Tract Society

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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, 1999.
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 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...
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. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
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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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Agnes Giberne
The Religious Tract Society issued, undated, AG 's novelGwendoline; it had already appeared from the American Sunday-School Union in 1883 at Philadelphia as Gwendoline; or, Halcots and Halcombes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Agnes Giberne
The Religious Tract Society issued another children's story by AG , entitled Little Why-Because, with illustrations by Dudley Tennant .
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Publishing Frances Browne
The final publication by FB , another illustrated tale called The First of the African Diamonds, was published posthumously by the Religious Tract Society in its Ninepenny Series.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography lists...
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, 1952.
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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...

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Stretton, Hesba. Fern’s Hollow. Religious Tract Society, 1864.
Stretton, Hesba. Jessica’s First Prayer. Religious Tract Society, 1867.
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.
Tytler, Sarah. A Young Oxford Maid. Religious Tract Society, 1890.