Author:Matilda Charlotte Houstoun

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
(1811–1892)

English novelist and travel writer, best known for Recommended to Mercy, a sympathetic portrayal of a "fallen woman." She later became an activist for judicial and prison reform. Daughter of Edward Jesse.

Matilda Charlotte Houstoun

Works edit

Novels edit

  • Such Things Are (1862) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Recommended to Mercy (1862) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Hazel Combe; or, The Golden Rule (1862) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Zoe's 'Brand' (1864) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Taken Upon Trust (1866) (external scan)
  • Sink or Swim? (1868) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Daisie's Dream (1869) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Wide of the Mark (1871) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • First in the Field (1872) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Barbara's Warning (1874) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Done in the Dark (1877) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Records of a Stormy Life (1879) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • Lost in the Crowd; or, Better Broke Than Kept (1882) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
  • His Besetting Sin (1888)
  • The Way She Won Him (1891) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Travels and memoirs edit

  • Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, or, Yachting in the New World (1845) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Hesperos; or, Travels in the West (1850) (external scan)
  • "The Fair of Ballinasloe" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 8 (1863)
  • Twenty Years in the Wild West; or, Life in Connaught (1879) (external scan)
  • A Woman's Memories of World-Known Men (1883) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Only a Woman's Life; by One Who Saved It (1889)
  • (ed.) Letters and Reminiscences of the Rev. John Mitford: With a Sketch of His Correspondent's Life (1891) (external scan)

Works about Houstoun edit

  • "Mrs. Houstoun" in Notable Women Authors of the Day by Helen C. Black (1893)


 

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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