A Miserable Christmas and a Happy New Year

A Miserable Christmas and a Happy New Year
Author: Hesba Stretton
Publisher: Curiosmith
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941281257

Kate was a beautiful daughter who helped comfort her father’s patients. When the doctors assistant, Dr. Carey, took an interest in her, he sent a letter of his feelings. Unfortunate events started immediately. Mrs. Duffy was shot and taken to Dr. Carey’s Hospital and Kate and Philip barely talked. But the story was not over. Kate was learning that in order to bear her own burden well, it was necessary to share that of another. Another moral principle is the forgiveness of serious sin.

You Are the Mother of All Mothers

You Are the Mother of All Mothers
Author: Angela Miller
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: Bereavement
ISBN: 9781940014197

Every loss mama deserves to be reminded she is the mother of all mothers.

The Writings of Hesba Stretton

The Writings of Hesba Stretton
Author: Elaine Lomax
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351880217

Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical fiction for young people, including Jessica's First Prayer, this characterization fails to acknowledge the extensive range of her writings and social activism. Elaine Lomax re-examines Stretton's writing for children and adults, situating her body of work within the broad social and cultural context of its production to expose the depth and complexity of Stretton's engagement with contemporary ideas, debates, and discourses. Mining nineteenth-century periodicals, archival materials, and the minutes of the Religious Tract Society, as well as Stretton's own revealing log books, Lomax demonstrates Stretton's preoccupation with those at the bottom or on the margins of society. At the same time, she advances our understanding of the intersection of cultural and literary representations of the child and childhood with wider images of the colonized or excluded, and our knowledge of the history and development of juvenile literature and women's writing.

Every Month is a New Year

Every Month is a New Year
Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781620141625

Happy New Year ... in July! This versatile collection of engaging original poems showcases New Year celebrations throughout the year and around the world.