The most popular Religious Tract Society[1] writer of children's fiction in the High Victorian period, the prolific Hesba Stretton, [2] often wrote of the desperate wanderings of outcasts in England's industrial cities of Manchester, Liverpool, and-most often-London. Stretton is known primarily as the advocate of poor urban children in both her life and her art. She was the friend of Dickens, and-in company with the great philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts...