Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Religious Tract Society
Connections
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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
. |
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. xii |
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 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. 217 |
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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Texts
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.