Mary Jones and Her Bible, Mary Emily Ropes
Mary Jones and Her Bible, Mary Emily Ropes
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Mary Jones and Her Bible
A Victorian Classic for Children

Author: Mary Emily Ropes, Christopher Wright

Narrator: James Wood

Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2019

Synopsis

A Young Girl Tries to Buy a Bible!This is a true story of a girl called Mary Jones. As soon as she can read the large Bible at the Evans’ old farmhouse, Mary makes up her mind to buy a copy for herself.After six years she has saved enough money, but there is the long journey over the Welsh mountains to Bala. And then she hears that there are no Bibles for sale!As the story unfolds you will see how a girl, a preacher, a school master who couldn’t read or write – and other people – are slowly being drawn together to start something that can’t be stopped. Mary Jones and her Bible is just the beginning of a story that is still going on today.

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Goodreads review by Natalie

"Thousands have been touched by the story of how a poor Welsh girl walked barefooted to Bala (twenty-five miles from her home) to buy a Bible for which she had been saving for several years." This is a quaint story of one child's determination to have her own Bible. I'm not sure how accurate it i......more

Goodreads review by Angie

There wasn't terribly much to this story, but somehow it didn't feel too badly dragged out for all that. There were some digressions on the history of other connected people and a bit on the formation and work of the society whose founding Mary Jones helped to inspire, but it really didn't feel out......more

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