# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hesba-stretton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:45:01.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hesba-stretton"
name: "Hesba Stretton"
slug: "hesba-stretton"
description: "Hesba Stretton was the pseudonym of Sarah Smith, an evangelical English author of highly popular religious books for children. By the late 19th century Jessica's First Prayer had sold a million and a half copies – ten times more than Alice in Wonderland. She concocted \"Hesba Stretton\" from the initials of herself and four surviving siblings, along with the name of a Shropshire village she visited, All Stretton, where her sister Anne owned a house, Caradoc Lodge."
tagline: "British writer (1832–1911)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hesba-stretton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-07-27"
deathDate: "1911-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesba_Stretton"
    title: "Hesba Stretton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesba_Stretton"
    title: "Hesba Stretton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesba_Stretton"
    title: "Hesba Stretton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesba_Stretton"
    title: "Hesba Stretton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesba_Stretton"
    title: "Hesba Stretton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Хесба Стреттон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4443905"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump