Hesba Stretton
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Standard Name: Stretton, Hesba
Birth Name: Sarah Smith
Pseudonym: Hesba Stretton
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was a prolific writer, who during the later nineteenth century produced nearly sixty works of fiction for children and adults, several works of non-fiction, and numerous contributions to a variety of different periodicals. Renowned for her bestselling evangelical children's stories, she typically chose to write about social reform in a style that has been described as