The works of Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, writer of tracts and books for children and the poor, were widely circulated in the early part of the nineteenth century. She chiefly wrote allegorical and realistic stories for children that her contemporaries recommended as suitable for the intended audience. Her best-known work, an allegorical tract titled The Two Lambs (1816), ran into multiple editions in both England and the United States and was translated into several languages, including French, Italian, Bulgarian, and Hindi. Cameron was committed to disseminating Evangelical principles through her writing. According to a contemporary of hers, educator Thomas Arnold, she achieved her aim: "The knowledge and the love of Christ nowhere be more readily gained by young children, than from ... some of the short stories of Mrs. Cameron, such as `Amelia,' the `Two Lambs,' the `Flower Pot.'" Today Cameron is most often mentioned alongside her better-known...