Author: Davis,Ellen Louisa
Title: THE TOWN'S BENEFACTOR a story of the Sunday Question
Description: London, The Religious Tract Society [1886] according to British Library full-page plates [3] by C.A Ferrier & J.F.W. + head- and tail-pieces [20] plus some repeats + decorated initial capitals. . Small 8vo green pictorial cloth gilt titled to cover and spine [lower cover bit marked/corners bumped and a bit worn] 158pp +{2p= publisher's gift books] inscription from the Wesley Sunday School to the pastedown, free endpapers browned otherwise only very minor signs of use. *The story of the boats plying the south Devon coast when a stranger remarks to the shipowner that surely the ships should run on Sundays as well as the weekdays that they worked up to now. This stops the sailors getting to church, the work becomes ever more burdensome as they have no restday and this leads to the death of a sailor and it is only after disaster that the owner realizes that he was at fault.

Keywords: Morality of Victorian Working on Sundays


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