Many moons ago, around the time I noted that I had acquired a copy of Historical Tales for Young Protestants, a gentleman connected with the Hewlett-Beuzeville-Roussel family contacted me to explain that "J. H. C."/"J. H. Crosse" was not the book's author; rather, Esther Beuzeville Hewlett Copley was (source). Except, while doing some work this evening, I suddenly processed that Copley died in 1851, and Historical Tales... came out in 1857. (Hey, it's numbers. It takes a while.) Next, while doing some 19th-c. newspaper & periodical trawling, I realized that it's not "Crosse," as every reference book under the sun has it, but the Religious Tract Society editor John Henry Cross, who did indeed help bring out Historical Tales [1]. Now, it may well be the case that Historical Tales is a posthumous publication of something found in Hewlett Copley's manuscripts--although six years is a bit more posthumous than one might expect. It may also be the case that she wrote not the entire collection, but only (posthumously) a single story. Or, again, that she wrote the book and it sat at the press for several years for no apparent reason (presses have been known to do that sort of thing...). The collection as a whole is in line with Hewlett Copley's anti-Catholicism in her other fiction, but that's hardly a meaningful identifier. Cross himself is likely the book's editor, but probably not its author. So, unless there's further information, I need to tweak a footnote.
ETA: One of the reasons I didn't catch the problem originally was that there was conflicting information (surprise!) about when the book was originally published.
[1] "John Henry Cross," The Child's Companion 89 (1 May 1876): 76.
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