Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

CFA contributed pieces to the collection Lyra Anglicana: Hymns and Sacred Songs (which, edited by Robert Hall Baynes and published in 1862, reached sales of thirty thousand within three years and sixty-nine thousand by 1879)...

The novel opens as the hero, Sydney Lennard, a surgeon with feminine sensitivity to the suffering of his patients, wearily arrives home at the end of the day to his mother and sisters. Not long...

EC 's religious views were influenced by her admiration for the Clapham Sect ; she published many titles with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .

The school was run by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . She remained there teaching history and literature until 1910.

In 1811 CFC became involved, through her father, in the National Society for the Education of the Poor . She wrote to her friends to drum up support and funds for the endeavour. While not...

CR , despite her poor health and her disavowal of the role of political poet, was keenly interested in political events and connected herself with contemporary political movements in a range of ways. Her father's...

Elizabeth Charles wrote novels, poems, and hymns, as well as books on historical and religious subjects. Her entire oeuvre is a testament to her vigorous evangelical convictions; her fiction typically marries religious didacticism with a...

A shilling edition put out in London and New York (in London by the SPCK ) has four full-page and fifteen small monochrome illustrations by Randolph Caldecott , its beige cover, on boards, bearing pictures...

ML stepped out of her own experience for a novel set among the upper classes and again published under her name with the SPCK : A Garland of Seven Lilies, this time with illustrations...

In 1883 the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published (under her real name) ML 's Carl Forrest's Faith, after she had submitted it to several publishers in vain. She dedicated it to Harold and...

The full title was A Comparative View of the New Plan of Education promulgated by Mr. Joseph Lancaster, in his Tracts concerning the Instruction of the Children of the Labouring Part of the Community; and...

CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...

This was one of the shorter fictions which EM published with James Nisbet and Co. She issued others of the same type with the SPCK , while Seeley continued to publish her longer books.

Among EC 's later works was Songs Old and New (1887), a collection of poems. Though this edition was billed as collected, it was re-issued by the SPCK in 1894 in an edition which...

Beginning in 1889, CC published at least two titles a year, not all of which were novels and some of which were written collaboratively. In 1890, she published two novels for young women with the...