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— Notes to pages 64–71 —
40 The Christian Miscellany, vol. 13, January 1867, p. 11.
41 Reprinted from The Child’s Magazine in The Primitive Methodist Children’s
Magazine, no. 10, October 1827, pp. 151–3.
42 Ibid., new series vol. 1, 1843, pp. 11–13.
43 A Heroic Child, Stirling, Drummond Tracts, 1871 First Series, no. 181.
44 Quoted in The Christian Miscellany, 1890, p. 394.
45 The Ball-Room and Its Tendencies: An Affectionate Appeal to Professing
Christian Parents of the Upper and Middle Classes, Stirling, Drummond Tracts
no. 31, 1853, pp. 1–2.
46 A Race-Course Dialogue, Stirling, Drummond Tract no. 97, 1852, pp. 1–2.
47 British Messenger, vol. 68, September 1920, p. 100. See also D. Rapp, ‘The
British Salvation Army, the early film industry and urban working-class adolescents,
1897–1918’, Twentieth Century British History, 1996, vol. 7, pp. 157–88.
48 Light Reading, Stirling, Drummond Tract no. 124, 1853.
49 Confession of a Novel-Reader, Stirling, Drummond Tract no. 126, 1853.
50 British Weekly, 2 January 1902.
51 ‘But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but
to be in silence.’ (King James version.)
52 The General Baptist Repository, vol. 3, 1 January 1824, p. 17; 1 March 1824,
pp. 94–5.
53 Free Church Magazine, 1844, vol. 6, p. 171.
54 B. Stanley, The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism
in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Leicester, Apollos, 1990, pp. 80–1;
S. Gill, Women and the Church of England: From the Eighteenth Century to
the Present, London, SPCK, 1994, pp. 131–98; O. Checkland, Philanthropy in
Victorian Scotland, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1980, pp. 84–9.
55 Revd G. Everard, Life for Evermore, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise,
1902, p. 93.
56 Such as the accounts of ‘Miss Fraser’ in A.M.C. (pseud.), Stories of a Men’s
Class and Two Words Did It, and Other Narratives, both Stirling, Drummond
Tract Enterprise, 1903.
57 British Weekly, 26 November 1886, p. 15.
58 Ibid., 21 March 1918, p. 454.
59 I. McEwan, Enduring Love, London, Vintage, 1998, p. 48.
60 Ibid.
61 M.R. Somers and G.D. Gibson, quoted in P. Joyce, Democratic Subjects: The
Self and the Social in Nineteenth-century England, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1994, p. 153.
62 Ibid., p. 189.
63 J.R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-
Victorian London, London, Virago, 1992, esp. pp. 81–120.
64 E.D. Ermarth, The English Novel in History 1840–1895, London, Routledge,
1997, p. 125.
65 See for instance D.B. Hindmarsh, John Newton and the English Evangelical
Tradition Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. 13–49.
66 Chamber’s was serialising stories in 1834 before Charles Dickens’ experiment
in serialised publishing of Pickwick Papers in nineteen monthly parts in 1836–7.
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