Religious Tract Society

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Textual Production Charlotte Elliott
The Religious Tract Society published many collections and leaflets of Elliott's poems after her death, all of which are now obscure. Sixteen Poetical Leaflets appeared in 1872,
This is listed in the British Library Catalogue...
Textual Production Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Someone named Charlotte O'Brien began publishing in 1855 (when CGOB was probably not yet ten) a series of little books for children, mostly now rare. After the first, The Coral Necklace, came A Simple...
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
AG published with the Religious Tract Society , undated, Stories of the Abbey Precincts.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
48 (12 December 1902): 373
Textual Production Emma Jane Worboise
Margaret Maison , a scholar of Victorian religious fiction, argues that Worboise participated in the rise of sensationalism in evangelical fiction, and that in her later years she worked against the essential rules for healthful...
Textual Production Isabella Bird
IB followed Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan with two articles in the Contemporary Review about the persecution of Christians in Asiatic Turkey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Another travel narrative which she based on the same trip, Among the...
Textual Production Agnes Giberne
AG published with the Religious Tract Society her undated novel entitled Profit and Loss; or, Life's Ledger.
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Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS published The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia (centred on the sisters's schooldays) through the Religious Tract Society in 1827.
Women Writers of the (long) English Regency. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts.
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Textual Production E. Owens Blackburne
This text is different from the publication Irish Stories held by the Belfast Central Library, Ulster and Irish Studies . Published by the Religious Tract Society in 1889, this unattributed collection of moral tales for...
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...
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.
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Publishing Hesba Stretton
The notoriously stingy Religious Tract Society gave her £30 for the copyright of this work.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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...
Publishing Mary Howitt
MH was among the authors writing for the Religious Tract Society ; after moving to Rome she became official correspondent for its periodical Leisure Hour. She and her husband both wrote shilling texts for...
Publishing Hesba Stretton
She was paid thirty-five guineas for it by the Religious Tract Society , which she rejoiced at as capital pay.
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm.
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Cutt, Margaret Nancy. Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children. Five Owls Press.
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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.