Charlotte Tucker, from photograph taken at Toronto in 1875.
Source: Giberne, frontispiece.
"... with what absolute self-devotion Miss Tucker entered into the toil, with what resolution she persevered in the face of obstacles, with what eagerness she did the very utmost within her power" — Agnes Giberne, p. 4.
"In looking through a list of her books, one is struck by the enormous popularity which some of them have enjoyed, and by the genuine literary beauties which many of them display" — "A.L.O.E."
Biographical Material
Works
- A list of works, with links to editions available online
Links to Related Material
Bibliography
"A.L.O.E." Illustrated London News Vol. CIV (6 January 1894): 3. Internet Archive. Web. 1 July 2025.
Carpenter, Humphrey, and Mari Prichard. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. 1984. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Corrected ed. 1985.
"Charlotte Maria Tucker." Orlando (Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present). Cambridge University Press. https://orlando.cambridge.org/people/b53a2475-654b-4027-a8b5-cfdf020246af.
Day, Katherine B. A.L.O.E.: Writing Home (unpublished MA Dissertation in part fulfilment of the requirements of the MA in Children's Literature of the University of Surrey. Academia. https://www.academia.edu/6966126/A_L_O_E_Writing_Home
Giberne, Agnes. A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. Internet Archive, from a copy in Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Web. 1 July 2025.
James, Russell. A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers. Prospero Books, 2024.
Marshall, Mrs [Emma Marshall]. "'A.L.O.E' (Mrs Tucker); Miss Ewing." Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1897. Internet Archive, from a copy in Harvard University. Web. 1 July 2025. 293-297.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Created 1 July 2025