Reading without Tears, or, a Pleasant Mode of Learning to Read

by Favell Lee Mortimer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

252 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2001

About the author

Victorian children’s writer Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer (born Favell Lee Bevan) was a woman of deep piety--and of even more profound prejudices. Born a Quaker in London in 1802, she converted to Evangelicalism at age 25 and devoted her life to the proper religious development of children, a task that involved extolling the virtues of Protestantism and denouncing as corrupt or evil every other form of faith and practice.