author
Favell Lee Mortimer
1802–1878
Best known for writing children's religious and educational books in Victorian Britain, she reached a huge audience with simple, direct lessons meant for young readers. Her work offers a vivid glimpse of the moral world many nineteenth-century children were taught to inhabit.
2 Audiobooks
Far Off; Or, Asia and Australia Described With Anecdotes and Illustrations
by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Peep of Day
by Favell Lee Mortimer
About the author
Born in London in 1802 as Favell Lee Bevan, she later became known as Favell Lee Mortimer and built a remarkable career as a writer for children. She was part of a prosperous family, and after embracing evangelical religion as a young woman, she devoted much of her life to teaching children through books.
Her best-known works include The Peep of Day and Line upon Line, books that explained Bible stories and Christian teaching in plain language for very young readers. These titles became enormously popular in the nineteenth century and helped make her one of the best-known religious educators of her day.
She also wrote geography and instructional books, which are still discussed today because they reveal both the reach and the limits of Victorian attitudes. She died in 1878, but her writing remains useful to modern readers as a window into children's publishing, religious education, and everyday assumptions in nineteenth-century Britain.