books with a religious message that reflected popular taste. Popular taste has changed
and whether there will be room for a self-consciously Christian fiction in the twenty-first
century or whether it was simply a phenomenon of two hundred years’ duration remains
to be seen.
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Haven: Yale University Press.
Cutt, M.N. (1974) Mrs Sherwood and her Books for Children, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
——(1979) Ministering Angels, a Study of Nineteenth Century Evangelical Writing for Children,
Wormley: Five Owls Press.
Demers, P. (1993) Heaven Upon Earth. The Form of Moral and Religious Children’s Literature to
1850, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Greene, I. (1995) The Christian’s ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England, c.1540— 1740,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jones, W. (1850) The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society 1799–1849, London: Religious
Tract Society.
Milligan, E.H. (1988) ‘Elfrida Vipont as children’s writer’, Friends’ Quarterly 25, 2:66–76.
Pickering, S. E, Jr (1993) Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children, 1749–1820, Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press.
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