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C. S. Sleight
A little-known 19th-century writer, likely a clergyman, remembered today for contributing the story "A Brave Boy" to the collection An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales. Very little biographical information appears to survive, which gives the work an extra sense of literary mystery.
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An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales
by Sarah Orne Jewett, active 19th century Frances Lee, C. S. Sleight
About the author
C. S. Sleight is an obscure author from the 19th century whose name survives mainly through An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales, a collection associated with Sarah Orne Jewett, Frances Lee, and Sleight. Modern catalog and bookseller records consistently list Sleight as one of the contributors, and some describe the author as Reverend C. S. Sleight.
Because reliable historical information is scarce, only a small outline can be confirmed. Sleight appears to have written at least the story "A Brave Boy," which is included in that collection, and the surviving work suggests an interest in moral, youthful, and domestic storytelling typical of late 19th-century reading.
No trustworthy portrait or fuller biographical record was clearly available from the sources reviewed, so much of Sleight's life remains uncertain. For readers, that means the writing itself is the main doorway into the author: a brief surviving presence in Victorian-era juvenile fiction.