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

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.

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.


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