Brought Home: A Tale of a Concealed Habit
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Augustus Egg, William Morris Hunt and Luke Fildes. A woman drinks, and her household — husband, servants, the parish — arranges itself around the fact, concealing it, until it cannot be concealed. Stretton was Sarah Smith of Shropshire, who took her pen name from her sisters' initials and a village on the map; Jessica's First Prayer outsold Alice in Wonderland in its day. This short novel is her hardest, and there is no easy rescue in it. Fifty-seven plates, among them Augustus Egg's Past and Present and Luke Fildes's The Travelling Companions, gather the moralising domestic painting of 1725 to 1914 that gives this tale of a hidden habit its visual argument.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Augustus Egg, William Morris Hunt and Luke Fildes. A woman drinks, and her household — husband, servants, the parish — arranges itself around the fact, concealing it, until it cannot be concealed. Stretton was Sarah Smith of Shropshire, who too...
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Hesba Stretton (1832–1911) was the pen name of Sarah Smith, an English writer of children's fiction and evangelical tracts. She contributed regularly to the periodicals of the Religious Tract Society, and her novel Brought Home (1875) became one of her most widely circulated works.
Hesba Stretton (1832–1911) was the pen name of Sarah Smith, an English writer of children's fiction and evangelical tracts. She contributed regularly to the periodicals of the Religious Tract Society, and her novel Brought Home (1875) became one of her most widely circulated works.
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