This is a very obscure footnote in Fowler's career. These are her first efforts at fiction writing disinterred from oblivion in the pages of the British Workman magazine, which seems to have been a very paternalistic temperance publication, leading the biddable working class to a less debauched life, typical of the late Victorian era. Her breakthrough, Concerning Isabel Carnaby, had occurred in 1898, so was fresh when Partridge, famed purveyors of Godly and improving literature, pulled this volume together. These highly moral stories of the triumph of the good and the just deserts of the evil, complete with hearty advice and admonishments, show her skill with bright plotting - and not a lot else.
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