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— Notes to pages 71–79 —
D. Skilton (ed.), The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel, London, Routledge, 1993,
p. 32, n. 1.
67 Religious polarities of melancholy and happiness constituted the structure of
William James’ study of the divided self; W. James, The Varieties of Religious
Experience, London, Longmans, Green, orig. 1902, 1928 imprint, pp. 78–188.
68 Major-General M.H. Synge, quoted in M.S.S. Herdman, The Romance of the
Ranks: Reminiscences of Army Life, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1888,
p. vi.
69 These were: descent from a higher world, descent to a lower world, ascent
from a lower world, and ascent to a higher world, where the highest world
level is heaven. N. Frye, The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of
Romance, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 5, 97.
70 Frye’s seven phases in the ‘revelation’ of the Bible were: creation, revolution
or exodus, law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel and apocalypse. N. Frye, The Great
Code: The Bible and Literature, Toronto, Academic Press Canada, 1982, pp.
105–38, 169.
71 U. Eco, The Role of the Reader, Bloomington, Ind., University of Indiana
Press, 1979, p. 146. For an appreciation of the value of this technique, see D.
Strinati, An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, London, Routledge,
1995, pp. 102–8.
72 Eco, Role of the Reader, p. 156.
73 The General Baptist Repository, February 1848, p. 69.
74 G. Pettman, The Unequal Yoke, Stirling, Stirling Tract Enterprise, c. 1938.
75 N. Fabb, Linguistics and Literature, Oxford, Blackwell, 1997, pp. 203–6.
76 A.M.C. (pseud.), Two Words Did It, and Other Narratives, Stirling,
Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1903, pp. 18, 28.
77 A.O. Stott, ‘Fanny’s Mistake and Its Sequel’, in Good News, June 1924, no.
751, pp. 21–2.
78 British Weekly, 22 July 1887, p. 188–9.
79 British Messenger, 1 March 1862.
80 S. Watson, Catherine Ballard, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1894,
p. 86.
81 Ibid., pp. 154–5.
82 Mrs Harvey-Jellie, ‘Saved from Drifting’, Good News, February 1922, no. 722,
p. 2.
83 British Messenger, 1 August 1865, p. 85.
84 The Christian Miscellany, vol. 13, January 1867, p. 10.
85 G. Pardon, Love’s Healing, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, c. 1925,
p. 16.
86 M. Wynn, Jennifer-Ann, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, c. 1946, p. 32.
After 1910, Drummond’s books were uniformly undated, allowing for their
endless reprinting with re-typesetting and new illustrations of the latest ladies’
fashions to maintain an air of modernity.
87 H. Kent, The Doctor’s Story: How a Woman Doctor Found her Way to a World
of Glad Service through Doors of Sorrow, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise,
c. 1930, p. 2.
88 Ibid., p. 16.
89 Good News, February 1937, no. 904, pp. 5–6.
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