TY - BOOK AU - Hocking,Silas K. AU - Tuck,Harry TI - Her Benny: A Story of Street Life AV - PZ PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Christian life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Siblings -- Juvenile fiction KW - Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction KW - Diligence -- Juvenile fiction KW - Accidents -- Juvenile fiction KW - Farms -- Juvenile fiction KW - Street life -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Benny_(novel); Release date is 2013-07-27; Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (From images generously made available by Europeana and the Bodleian Library of Oxford.) "This etext edition of 'Her Benny' is dedicated to the memory of Edgar, John and Kenneth Graham - three brothers from Liverpool who made good."; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Her Benny: A Story of Street Life" by Silas K. Hocking is a novel first published in 1879. Set in the slums of Victorian Liverpool, it follows young Benny Bates and his frail sister Nelly as they escape their violent father and struggle to survive on the streets. Aided by kind friends, the siblings learn to lead Christian lives while facing poverty, loss, and false accusations. This "waif story" became hugely successful, selling over a million copies and establishing Hocking's reputation as a writer of improving fiction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43325 ER -