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Religous Genre

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Books in the Religous genre:

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)

Robinson writes a series of essays, illuminated by his many adventures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)

Written under the Dickens pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, this pamphlet opposed proposed laws restricting popular entertainment on Sundays. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Sunday Employment, Sunday Enjoyment for the Young and Good (1859)

A work intended to make the search after holiness agreeable, rather than tedious. The title page is by Richard Doyle. Read online at Google.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Upcher Cousens
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

A Chaplet of Verses (1862)

A collection of religious verse. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Adelaide Anne Procter
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest (1868)

A musical attack on the British treatment of Irish persons incarcerated in British jails. Read online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)

A pleasant story of a young orphan who is taken in as a servant, strives to do well through honesty and hard work, and ultimately succeeds, inheriting his master’s dovecot and doves. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Nellie Doran (1888)

When Nellie's brother sells his horses, the family decides to send Nellie to the convent school, where her talent for music is soon revealed. This one of the few boarding school stories set in a Catholic institution.

Author(s): Miriam Agatha
Illustrator(s): None

A Book of Christmas Verse (1895)

An anthology that begins with St. Ambrose. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Henry Charles Beeching
Various
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)

One of the first attempts in English to tell the whole story of La Pucelle, the Maid of France. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Frank Vincent Du Mond
Photographs

The Supply at Saint Agatha’s (1896)

A ‘supply’ is a Protestant clergyman who fills in for an absent pastor. In this short story, a heavenly figure fills in for a dying man. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Sunday Reading for the Young (1900)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
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Sunday Reading for the Young (1901)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

Sunday Reading for the Young (1905)

This was a periodical with religious-themed content. It was published weeky and monthly numbers and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Gordon Browne
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Sunday Reading for the Young (1906)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

Christian Science (1907)

A combination of a humorous send-up and a more serious critique of the cult of Mary Baker Eddy. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Photographs

The Ministry of David Baldwin (1907)

A young man begins his career as a Protestant minister. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Henry Thomas Colestock
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

Sunday Reading for the Young (1907)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

Sunday Reading for the Young (1908)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

The Red Book of Heroes (1909)

Biographies of people who were truly in earnest. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): A. Wallis Mills

The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)

A collection of biographies of saints and heroes. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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