Author: [Sargant, Jane Alice].
Title: Robert Wiles; or, Too Fast at First.
Description: New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, circa [1850]. [1850]. - Sextodecimo (16mo), 6 inches high by 3-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed tan wraps titled within a floral wreath on the front cover and with the publisher's ads on the verso. The covers are stained with some creases to the corners and slits to the paper along the head and tail of the spine. 26 pages, with a decorated title and a half-page woodcut. There is dampstaining to the top of the front edge of the first six and last four pages. Good. RARE. Possibly authored by Jane Alice Sargant (1789-1869), who was born in Isle of Ely. She was close to her elder brother Sir Harry Smith, the victor of the battle of Aliwal in Northern India and governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Turning to teaching, writing and running a school after her husband's death, she mainly penned religious-themed works. Her first novel "Ringstead Abbey" was followed by juvenile fiction which she wrote for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S BOOKS; ILLUSTRATED; JANE ALICE SARGANT; ROBERT WILES; TOO FAST AT FIRST; ILLUSTRATION; DECORATIONS; GENERAL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; JUVENILE FICTION; MORAL TALE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS.


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