Stories for the Young
Hannah More
Paperback
(Book Jungle, Dec. 4, 2009)
Hannah More (1745 -1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. Her first literary efforts were pastoral plays, suitable for young ladies to act. She was instrumental in setting up twelve schools by 1800 where reading, the Bible and the catechism were taught to local children. Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. Include Black Giles the Poacher; containing some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work, History of Widow Brown's Apple-tree; being Part II. of Black Giles the Poacher, Tawney Rachel; or, the Fortune-teller: with some account of Dreams, Omens, and Conjurers. Being Part III. of Black Giles the Poacher, The Happy Waterman, The Gravestone, Parley the Porter. An Allegory. Showing how robbers without can never get into a house unless there are traitors within, A New Christmas Tract; or, the Right Way of Rejoicing at Christmas. Showing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth, A New Christmas Hymn, Bear ye one another's Burdens; or, the Valley of Tears. A Vision, The Strait Gate and the Broad Way; being the Second Part of the Valley of Tears, and The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard.