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Hack, Mary Pryor. Faithful Service: Sketches of Christian Women. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1885.

In series with other books by Hack.

TOC: Darcy Lady Maxwell; Ruth Clark; Sophie Zeller; Sarah B. Upton; Sarah B. Judson; Priscilla Johnston; Margaret Foreman; Eliza Fletcher.

Blue-green cloth binding, with gold stamped title and "By the Author of 'Consecrated Women'" (no indication of author's name) and an array of gold and red ivy leaves on the cover (and spine), befits the claim, "elegantly bound in cloth, crown 8vo., 5s.," that appears variously in the advertisements for other books in this series by Mary Pryor Hack. These four pages of advertisements at back of volume include Christian Womanhood ("Third Thousand") Self-Surrender ("Third Thousand"), and Consecrated Women ("Fifth Thousand"), as well as A Woman's Work: Memorials of Eliza Fletcher by Rev. C.A. Salmond, "With a Facsimile of Mr. Gladstone's Letter to the Author," "Fourth Edition" and Mrs. Prentiss, The Author of "Stepping Heavenward." Her Life and Letters, by Rev. G. L. Prentiss, "Sixth Thousand. With Portrait and Illustrations," each of these pages filled with excerpts of periodical reviews. Book plate: Harriet K. Howell/ from/ Mary P. Hack./ 99 Trafalgar Street. Brighton." The first two lines appear handwritten in ink, the remaining printed in script. The chapter titles consist of the subject's name followed by birth and death dates and a phrase, all but one in quotation marks. Thus: I: Born 1738, died 1810; "Under his shadow"; II: Born (about) 1741, died 1807; "Found faithful"; III: Born 1791, died 1856; Working willingly with her hands; IV: Born 1797, died 1881; "Given to hospitality"; V: Born 1803, died 1845; "Called with a holy calling"; VI: Born 1808, died 1852; "Putting on the breastplate of faith and love"; VII: Born (probably about) 1820, died 1872; "Faithful and beloved"; VIII: Born 1831, died 1883; "Brought nigh." Each chapter preceded by a title page with epigraph (Havergal, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etc.) and a second page with a block of prose, often from another person's biography. Reproduces correspondence and adds footnotes identifying correspondents or otherwise annotating.

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