A.L.O.E.; [Tucker, Charlotte Maria]. Victory Stories. 1877 Series 1-3

A.L.O.E.; [Tucker, Charlotte Maria]. Victory Stories. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1877.  [11863]

Terracotta cloth decorated in black & gilt, slightly edgeworn with signs of old stains, joints good, 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Several nice plates illustrating the stories. 152, 154, 154 pages plus a publisher's catalogue with date of October, 1875. Most pages have an old tidemark in the bottom margin, plus occasional foxing. Fair. Hardcover.

The first, second, and third series of these evangelical tales drawn from the lives of children and their struggles. 

Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893), b. Middlesex, England; d. Amritsar, India. Her father was Henry St. George Tucker, twice elected chairman of the British East India Company. An evangelical Christian, Charlotte wrote stories under the pen name A. L. O. E., a Lady of England. A prolific writer of over 150 titles, many first appeared as serials in magazines before being published as books. At the age of 54 she became a missionary at Amritsar, Punjab, having taught herself Hindustani. There she was a self-supporting volunteer in the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society. She also worked in a boys school at Batala, and was a missionary to Indian women.