Agnes Giberne

[15] She began to scribble stories at age seven and shared these with her sisters[16] She ascribed her literary tastes to her mother and her scientific curiosity to her father.

The first children's book by Giberne in the British Library is A Visit to Aunt Agnes (Religious Tract Society, London, 1864).

Copson states that her children's stories were "typical works of Victorian evangelical fiction emphasizing childish faults and the need for salvation.

"[3] The lithographs by Kronheim & Co. for A Visit to Aunt Agnes, by courtesy of the University of Florida Digital Collections.

The first book in England which bears her name was The Curate's House which she wrote to draw attention to clerical poverty.

She also wrote books targeted at young adolescent girls, which was mainly published by the Religious Tract Society.

She had sent the proofs to Charles Pritchard (29 February 1808 – 28 May 1893), the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University and he was so impressed by it that he wrote, without being asked, a very positive introduction.[28].

Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that Giberne wrote for her own interests rather than to earn money,[3] she relied to some extent on her royalty income.

Her income was listed as an annuity, the royalties from her books, and £100 a year from the Indian Civil Service as a pensioner's child.

[55] The following list of works has developed largely from a search[56] on the Jisc Library Hub Discover database.

Where necessary, missing details such as page counts and publisher's names have been filled in by searches on WorldCat and on newspaper archives.