The author of The Peep of Day takes young readers on an imaginary tour of the Holy Land, Syria, Arabia, Persia, China, Cochin China, India and on to Australia, describing each country’s people, customs and religion with anecdotes of missionaries. She never travelled to most of them, and her sweeping, often scornful judgments of other nations and faiths are the prejudices of an English evangelical of 1852.
Now read as a period curiosity and a vivid record of Victorian attitudes to the wider world. Download the free EPUB.