Religious Tract Society

Reinforced by the success of Jessica's First Prayer and motivated by the knowledge that her living depended on her pen, HS shopped around for twelve weeks before she finally accepted the Religious Tract Society 's...

By this year the sales of HS 's books accounted for more than one fifth of all books sold by the Religious Tract Society .

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...

ASS also used her new identity David Lyall for a large number of book titles, most of them novels after the first collection of essays. She published Lyall novels serially in the Leisure Hour Monthly...

This, issued as usual through the Religious Tract Society , was based on her two years in Maritime Canada.

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...

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.

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...