[4] Reflecting on her childhood, Alcock described having read narratives of saintly children who died young as well as stories detailing missionary outreach to unconverted heathen.

However, she was allowed to read novels by Sir Walter Scott, which shaped the theme and style of her writing as she grew older.

In the 1891 England Census, she and a Caroline G. Cavendish listed as currently visiting an Irish friend from Cork, Martha A. Lloyd at 143 Clapham Road, Lambeth, London.

[note 1] Other work includes The Czar (1882), set during the French invasion of Russia; Archie’s Chances (1886), and Prisoners of Hope (1894).

[13] According to Benjamin B. Warfield, writing for the Princeton Theological Review, Alcock penned powerful stories but failed to make certain of her figures like John Calvin "Christian" and "forceful" enough.