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Her Benny, an improving story for young people about Liverpool street children, was first published in 1879. It was the best-known and most popular work of Methodist minister and author Silas Hocking.Published initially as a serial,[Her Benny, Read More..

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Description	Her Benny, an improving story for young people about Liverpool street children, was first published in 1879. It was the best-known and most popular work of Methodist minister and author Silas Hocking.Published initially as a serial,[Her Benny, author's preface.] and then in book form by Frederick Warne & Co. of London as Her Benny. A Story of Street Life, 1879, with illustrations by Harry Tuck. Hocking, who had published one previous novel (Alec Green, 1878), sold the copyright of this one for just £20, but it was to establish his reputation.John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, 1989, p.301 It became hugely successful, was translated into many languages,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Hocking. and sold over a million copies in the author's lifetime.Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Dinah Birch, 7th ed. (2009), entry for Her Benny
Description	Her Benny, an improving story for young people about Liverpool street children, was first published in 1879. It was the best-known and most popular work of Methodist minister and author Silas Hocking.Published initially as a serial,[Her Benny, author's preface.] and then in book form by Frederick Warne & Co. of London as Her Benny. A Story of Street Life, 1879, with illustrations by Harry Tuck. Hocking, who had published one previous novel (Alec Green, 1878), sold the copyright of this one for just £20, but it was to establish his reputation.John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, 1989, p.301 It became hugely successful, was translated into many languages,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Hocking. and sold over a million copies in the author's lifetime.Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Dinah Birch, 7th ed. (2009), entry for Her Benny

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Name	Her Benny. A Story of Street Life.
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Authors	Silas Hocking
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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