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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/RTS_repository.jpg/220px-RTS_repository.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/RTS_repository.jpg/330px-RTS_repository.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/RTS_repository.jpg/440px-RTS_repository.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Depository of the Religious Tract Society at 56 <a href="/wiki/Paternoster_Row" title="Paternoster Row">Paternoster Row</a>, opened in 1844.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200615_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200615-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Merged into</th><td class="infobox-data">1935<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1935</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">United Society for Christian Literature</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data note">1799</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>London, England</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Religious Tract Society</b> was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit. </p><p>Periodicals published by the RTS included <i><a href="/wiki/Boy%27s_Own_Paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Boy's Own Paper">Boy's Own Paper</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Girl%27s_Own_Paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Girl's Own Paper">Girl's Own Paper</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Leisure_Hour" title="The Leisure Hour">The Leisure Hour</a></i>. In 1935, it merged into what is today the United Society for Christian Literature. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation_and_early_history">Formation and early history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Formation and early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The idea for the society came from the <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist">Congregationalist</a> minister <a href="/wiki/George_Burder" title="George Burder">George Burder</a>, who raised the idea while meeting with the <a href="/wiki/London_Missionary_Society" title="London Missionary Society">London Missionary Society</a> (founded in 1795) in May 1799. It was formally established on 10 May 1799, having a treasurer, a secretary, and ten committee members,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20063_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20063-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with members required to "[subscribe] half a <a href="/wiki/Guinea_(coin)" title="Guinea (coin)">guinea</a> or upwards annually".<sup id="cite_ref-cyc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cyc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its initial membership was drawn from the London Missionary Society, and included: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Bogue" title="David Bogue">David Bogue</a>, Independent;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hawker" title="Robert Hawker">Robert Hawker</a>, Anglican;<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hughes_(Baptist)" title="Joseph Hughes (Baptist)">Joseph Hughes</a>, Baptist;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and</li> <li>Joseph Reyner as treasurer, business partner of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hardcastle_(1752%E2%80%931819)" title="Joseph Hardcastle (1752–1819)">Joseph Hardcastle</a>, Independent.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>At its formation, the society had support from bishops, including <a href="/wiki/Shute_Barrington" title="Shute Barrington">Shute Barrington</a> (Durham) and <a href="/wiki/Beilby_Porteus" title="Beilby Porteus">Beilby Porteus</a> (London).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Founders of the RTS would go on to found the <a href="/wiki/British_and_Foreign_Bible_Society" title="British and Foreign Bible Society">British and Foreign Bible Society</a> in 1804. </p><p>Initially, the society's only stated goal was the production and distribution across Britain of <a href="/wiki/Religious_tracts" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious tracts">religious tracts</a>—short pamphlets explaining the principles of the Christian religion, with the aim of spreading salvation to the masses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20065_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20065-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The society was interdenominational, including members belonging to most branches of Protestantism in Britain (such as Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers), as well as the established churches of England and Scotland; however, it excluded Roman Catholics and Unitarians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064–5_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064–5-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tracts">Tracts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tracts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the first 25 years of the society's existence, its main activity was the publication and distribution of religious tracts. The first RTS tract was David Bogue's <i>An Address to Christians, Recommending the Distribution of Cheap Religious Tracts</i>, which listed seven recommendations for writing effective religious tracts, including that they be "plain", "striking", "entertaining", and "adapted to various situations and conditions" of its audience.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Address_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Address-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These principles would tracts written in the following century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20064-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its first year, the society had a catalogue of 34 distinct tracts, and printed 200,000 copies. Its output increased over the years, and by 1820 its catalogue included 279 tracts, and it was printing more than 5 million annually.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20068_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20068-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1814, the society began publishing some tracts specifically for children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20069_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20069-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commercial_publishing">Commercial publishing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commercial publishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1820s and 1830s, the society began commercially publishing bound books and periodicals for adults and children, shifting away from its previous focus on tracts, and leading to a sharp increase in the society's income. This shift was the subject of some criticism both within and outside the organization. Subscribers to the society raised concerns that their contributions were being used to subsidize books which were aimed at a middle-class audience and priced out of reach of the working-class families that represented the previous targets of the society's evangelical efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe20069–12_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe20069–12-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1825, the society formally separated the accounting for its charitable and commercial work into what they termed a "Benevolent Fund" and "Trade Fund" in order to give greater transparency around how subscription funds were used. Beginning in 1835, the Trade Fund became entirely self-sufficient, with some profits from commercial publishing flowing into the Benevolent Fund.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200614_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200614-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 1840s, the RTS had become a sizeable publishing house, with more than 60 employees and a catalogue of more than 4,000 works in 110 languages.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200614_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200614-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periodicals">Periodicals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Periodicals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg/220px-The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg/330px-The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg/440px-The_Sunday_at_Home_1880_-_Psalm_23.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5192" data-file-height="7116" /></a><figcaption>Illustration from 1880 issue of <i>The Sunday at Home</i>, a magazine published by the RTS.</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest periodicals published by the society were <i>Child's Companion; or, Sunday scholar's reward</i> and <i>Tract Magazine; or Christian Miscellany</i>. Both debuted in 1824, and were issued monthly at a price of 1 <a href="/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coin)" title="Penny (British pre-decimal coin)">penny</a>, the former aimed at <a href="/wiki/Sunday_school" title="Sunday school">Sunday school</a> students, and the latter at their parents.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200610–11_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200610–11-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had monthly sales of 28,250 and 17,000, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200612_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200612-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The society's books were mostly small but did include larger works such as the multi-volume <i>Devotional Commentary</i> and the massive <a href="/wiki/Young%27s_Analytical_Concordance_to_the_Bible" title="Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible">Analytical Concordance to the Bible</a> of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Young_(Biblical_scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Young (Biblical scholar)">Robert Young</a>. </p><p>In the 1840s, the society distributed 23 million books to working class households.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELedger-Lomas2009152_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELedger-Lomas2009152-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the 1860s, the Society began publishing novels aimed at women and children, providing a platform for a new generation of women writers, including <a href="/wiki/Rosa_Nouchette_Carey" title="Rosa Nouchette Carey">Rosa Nouchette Carey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The society also published the notable novel, <i>Pilgrim's Progress,</i> by John Bunyan. They reproduced <i>Pilgrim's Progress,</i> in many formats including; penny parts, Sunday School prize additions, and cheap abridgments.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decline">Decline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Income from the sale of the society's books and periodicals went into a decline in the 1890s. A report issued by the society attributed this to a "general depression [which] has severely affected the book trade", though no such depression existed. Historian Aileen Fyfe attributes the decline to an increase in competition, and a decline in the influence of Christian evangelism and in the demand for religious literature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200623–24_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200623–24-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the society entered the 20th century, its operations contracted. It reduced the funding it provided for foreign missionary work, and in 1930 reorganized all its operations into a single building. In the inter-war period, tract circulation had declined to one million, its lowest level since 1806.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200623–25_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200623–25-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1932, a new imprint, <a href="/wiki/Lutterworth_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutterworth Press">Lutterworth Press</a>, was formed, under which most of the society's subsequent publications appeared.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200625_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200625-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1935, the society merged with the Christian Literature Society for India and Africa, later also incorporating the Christian Literature Society for China in 1941. The resulting entity was the United Society for Christian Literature, which, as of 2006, was continuing its mission, largely in the form of overseas missionary work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFyfe200625_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFyfe200625-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_to_an_emigrant" class="extiw" title="s:Address to an emigrant">Address to an emigrant</a></i> (1839)</li> <li><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/William_Tyndale_No._990" class="extiw" title="s:William Tyndale No. 990">William Tyndale No. 990</a></i> (1839)</li> <li><i>Mamma and her Child</i> (1843)</li> <li>The Oldest Fisherman the World Ever Saw, and Other Stories (1879)</li> <li>The Cup and the Kiss (1888)</li> <li><i>Adopted, or An Old Soldier's Embarrassments</i> (circa 1891)</li> <li><i>Wallaby Hill</i> (1880s-1890s)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By-paths_of_Bible_Knowledge" title="By-paths of Bible Knowledge">By-paths of Bible Knowledge</a></i> (1884-1904)</li> <li><i>The Jew</i> (circa 1890)</li> <li><i>Homes and Haunts of the Pilgrim Fathers</i> (1899)</li> <li><i>The Egyptian</i> (circa 1900)</li> <li><i>The Isles of Scilly: Their Story, their folk, & their Flowers</i> (1910)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_series">Book series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Book series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The R.T.S. issued a number of book series during the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of them were listed in the Society's catalogues.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li>The Anecdote Series<sup id="cite_ref-pubcirc_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pubcirc-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Bouverie Historical Stories<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Bouverie Series of Penny Stories<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Boy's Own Bookshelf</li> <li>Broad Sheets</li> <li>Burder's Village Sermons</li> <li>By-Paths of Bible Knowledge</li> <li>Cennick's Sermons</li> <li>Christian Classics</li> <li>Comments on Scripture</li> <li>Cottage Sermons</li> <li>First Series Tracts</li> <li>The Flower Patch Books (by <a href="/wiki/Flora_Klickmann" title="Flora Klickmann">Flora Klickmann</a>); republished in abbreviated form as The Flower Patch Booklets<sup id="cite_ref-church-times_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-church-times-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Girl's Own Bookshelf</li> <li>Half Penny Story Books</li> <li>Hand Bills</li> <li>Large Broad Sheets</li> <li>Little Dot Series</li> <li>The Little Library of Biography<sup id="cite_ref-church-times_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-church-times-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Narrative Series</li> <li>Nation Story Readers<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>New Biographical Series</li> <li>One Half Penny Book Series</li> <li>Pamphlet series</li> <li>The Pen and Pencil Series</li> <li>Penny Tales for the People</li> <li>Picture Books for Little Children</li> <li>Present Day Primers<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Present Day Tracts</li> <li>R.T.S. Books for the People, also known as: R.T.S. 1d. Penny Books for the People</li> <li>The R.T.S. Library<sup id="cite_ref-pubcirc_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pubcirc-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sandringham Series of Penny Stories</li> <li>Sea Sermons</li> <li>Second Series Tracts</li> <li>Select Sermons</li> <li>Sermons for the Ages</li> <li>Short Biographies for the People</li> <li>Six-Penny Toy Books</li> <li>The Sunflowers Series of Stories for All Readers</li> <li>Sunshine Readers<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Threepenny Book Series</li> <li>Two Pence Book Series</li> <li>Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, and Foreign Tracts of the Religious Tract Society</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Tract_Society" title="American Tract Society">American Tract Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_Sect" title="Clapham Sect">Clapham Sect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebenezer_Henderson" title="Ebenezer Henderson">Ebenezer Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_William_Bourdillon" title="Francis William Bourdillon">Francis William Bourdillon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Christian_Missions" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Christian Missions">History of Christian Missions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Mogridge_(Old_Humphrey)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Mogridge (Old Humphrey)">George Mogridge (Old Humphrey)</a> - one of the Society's most popular and prolific authors</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miss_Clack" title="Miss Clack">Miss Clack</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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Cambridge: Lutterworth Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=A+short+history+of+the+Religious+Tract+Society&rft.btitle=From+the+Dairyman%27s+Daughter+to+Worrals+of+the+WAAF%3A+the+Religious+Tract+Society%2C+Lutterworth+Press+and+Children%27s+Literature&rft.pub=Cambridge%3A+Lutterworth+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Fyfe&rft.aufirst=Aileen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10023%2F8124%2FRTS_history_f.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligious+Tract+Society" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLedger-Lomas2009" class="citation book cs1">Ledger-Lomas, Michael (2009). "Mass markets: religion". In McKitterick, David (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cambridge_History_of_the_Book_in_Britain" title="The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain">The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain</a></i>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521866248" title="Special:BookSources/9780521866248"><bdi>9780521866248</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mass+markets%3A+religion&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+the+Book+in+Britain&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=9780521866248&rft.aulast=Ledger-Lomas&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligious+Tract+Society" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religious_Tract_Society&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>William Jones, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006018682"><i>The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society</i></a>. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1850, 706 pages. Gives a full description of the first fifty years and remains the indispensable guide to the foundation of the Society</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Gosnell_Green" title="Samuel Gosnell Green">Samuel G. Green</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001936325"><i>The Story of the Religious Tract Society for one hundred years</i></a>. London, Religious Tract Society, 1899, 216 pages. Brings the story up to the centenary, but is much less illuminating</li> <li>Gordon Hewitt, <i>Let the People Read . . .</i>London, Lutterworth Press, 1949, 96 pages. Illustrations by Richard Kennedy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aileen_Fyfe" title="Aileen Fyfe">Aileen Fyfe</a>, <i>Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Writing in Victorian Britain</i>. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2004, 432 pages. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-27648-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-226-27648-9">978-0-226-27648-9</a>. Deals with one aspect of the Society's publishing programme</li> <li>Dennis Butts and Pat Garrett (ed.), <i>From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The Religious Tract Society, Lutterworth Press and Children's Literature</i>. Concentrates on the contribution to children's writing from the foundation onwards.</li> <li>Joseph McAleer, <i>Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain: 1914-1950</i>, Oxford University Press, 1992. 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