Emma Jane Worboise author

[Vivienne14]

The Village Green - reference to it is apparently made in Warboise’s book “”Overdale”. Warboise (Emma Jane Guyton) was a Birmingham writer, the first time I’ve heard of her. Don’t think the image would have appeared in the book, I think the caption means it was referred to in the book. But could be wrong. Viv.

 

[Lady Penelope]

Viv, I have heard of Miss Woboise but I can't remember in what connection. She apparently wrote 50 novels, all with a strong Christian message. That said I'm a little worried about 'House of Bondage' and the alternative title for Overdale, 'The Story of a Pervert'.

 

[Vivienne14]

Yes I saw that alternative title Lady P - maybe it had a slightly different meaning in the mid 1800s. Viv.

 

[Vivienne14]

Viv, I have heard of Miss Woboise but I can't remember in what connection. She apparently wrote 50 novels, all with a strong Christian message. That said I'm a little worried about 'House of Bondage' and the alternative title for Overdale, 'The Story of a Pervert'.

A little about Emma Jane Worboise - non de plume (was Mrs Etherington Guyton) born Birmingham in 1825 and her references to Birmingham and Erdington in her works. She once lived on Kingsbury Road, Erdington and Gravelly Lane.

Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Stokkie]

Yes I saw that alternative title Lady P - maybe it had a slightly different meaning in the mid 1800s. Viv.

Apparently the 'perversion' is Tractarianism - the Anglo-Catholic Tracts for the Times which energised the early stages of the Oxford Movement. She has an entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography which explains.

Thanks for posting about this author. I've never heard of her, but there are many Victorian novels that have been forgotten.