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Series of children's books

The Sunday Library for Household Reading was a British series of children's religious biographies and histories. It was published by Macmillan from 1868, and edited by Frances Martin. The intended audience has been identified as families reading after church service on Sunday.

The works appeared in monthly parts at one shilling, as part publishing.

Number Year Author Title
I 1868 Charlotte Mary Yonge The Pupils of St. John the Divine
II 1868 Charles Kingsley The Hermits
III 1868 Frederic William Farrar Seekers after God
IV 1868 George Macdonald England's Antiphon
V 1869 François Guizot Saint Louis and Calvin, translation by Frances Martin
VI 1869 Catherine Winkworth Christian Singers of Germany
VII 1869 George Frederick Maclear Apostles of Mediæval Europe
VIII 1869 Thomas Hughes Alfred the Great
IX 1870 Annie Keary The Nations Around
X 1870 R. W. Church St. Anselm
XI 1868 Mrs. Oliphant Saint Francis of Assisi
XII 1871 Charlotte Yonge Pioneers and Founders; or, Recent Workers in the Mission Field

Notes

  1. Thomas Rawson Birks (1873). First Principles of Moral Science a Course of Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge Thomas Rawson Birks. Macmillan and Company. pp. 1–.
  2. Curthoys, M. C. "Martin, (Mary Anne) Frances". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48513. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Michael J. P. Robson (17 November 2011). The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi. Cambridge University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-521-76043-0.
  4. Michael Wheeler (24 November 2011). St John and the Victorians. Cambridge University Press. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-1-139-50215-3.
  5. J. M. I. Klaver (2006). The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley. Brill. p. 587. ISBN 978-90-04-15128-4.
  6. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Farrar, Frederic William" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  7. Lawrence N. Crumb (20 March 2009). The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders: A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources. Scarecrow Press. pp. 280–1. ISBN 978-0-8108-6280-7.
  8. Laurent Theis (2008). François Guizot (in French). Fayard. p. 352. ISBN 978-2-213-63653-5.
  9. Joanne Shattock (1999). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 1837. ISBN 978-0-521-39100-9.
  10. George Frederick Maclear (1869). Apostles of Mediæval Europe.
  11. T. A. Shippey; Martin Arnold (January 2003). Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-0-85991-772-8.
  12. Annie Keary (1870). The Nations Around. Macmillan & Company.
  13. Richard William Church (1870). Saint Anselm. Macmillan.
  14. Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1868). Francis of Assisi. By Mrs. Oliphant. [Sunday Library. The Sunday Library for Household Reading.].
  15. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1871). Pioneers and Founders, or Recent workers in the mission field. Macmillan.


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