The Old Worcester Jug

by Eglanton Thorne

As a young woman falls from her father's grace, she has nowhere to turn on a dreadfully cold winter's night; now she must find refuge for her little girl. If she returns home, is there any hope that she might find her father waiting with open arms? Otherwise she has one last resort - to sell her only treasure to greedy Mr. Griffin. In either case, the price is too great. The drama deepens as John Griffin does the unthinkable! The stronghold of pride and the vice of greed take center stage as the tension rises and the mystery unfolds.
-Lamplighter Publishing

Genres: Fiction

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1882

About the author

Pseudonym of Elizabeth Emily Charlton.

Elizabeth Emily Charlton was born in 1852 in Totteridge, the daughter of Congregational minister Rev. John M. Charlton. At the young age of eleven her first production was published by a children's magazine. Charlton would go on to pen fifty books under the pseudonym "Eglanton Thorne" mostly for the Religious Tract Society. Raised in the west country where her father was a professor at Western College, she lived most of her life in London. While there, she was "an enthusiastic worker in a West London mission." She never married and died on 17 September 1907 in Plymouth.

Bassett, Troy J. "Author: Elizabeth Emily Charlton." At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837—1901, 3 June 2024, http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl.... Accessed 13 June 2024.

Reviews

[Chloe W · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story was beautiful! I really enjoyed the interesting and insightful characters and the intriguing plot. Read again!

[Rachel]

I read this book aloud to my family and they all enjoyed it. [My parents + 5 children ranging in age from 21 to 9.]

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

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