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Her Benny (novel)
''Her Benny'', an improving story for young people about Liverpool street children, was first published in 1879. It was the best-known and most popular work of Methodist minister and author Silas Hocking.
Published initially as a serial,〔(Benny'', author's preface. )〕 and then in book form by Frederick Warne & Co. of London as ''Her Benny. A Story of Street Life'', 1879, with illustrations by Harry Tuck. Hocking, who had published one previous novel (''Alec Green'', 1878), sold the copyright of this one for just £20, but it was to establish his reputation.〔John Sutherland, ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989, p.301〕 It became hugely successful, was translated into many languages,〔''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' entry for Hocking.〕 and sold over a million copies in the author's lifetime.〔''Oxford Companion to English Literature'', ed. Dinah Birch, 7th ed. (2009), entry for ''Her Benny''〕
== Plot ==
Benny Bates, a poor boy from the Liverpool slums, is ten years old when the story begins. He scrapes a living running errands in the streets; his beloved but frail sister Nelly, a year younger, sells matches. Their mother is dead, their father a drink-sodden brute. When he becomes violent towards Nelly, the two children run away from home. Helped by their friend the night-watchman Joe Wrag, and 'Granny' Betty Barker, they manage to retain their independence and learn to lead Christian lives. Nelly, a child of great natural spiritual insight, acts as Benny's moral conscience; when she dies after a street accident, he is in despair. A lucky encounter with Eva Lawrence, the little girl he will come to call his 'angel', leads to a job as office-boy to her father, a rich Liverpool businessman. Benny works hard, hoping to educate and better himself, but loses both job and reputation when Mr. Lawrence wrongly accuses him of stealing a five-pound note. Abandoning Liverpool, he nearly dies of starvation and heat-stroke, but is rescued and nursed back to health by a kindly farming family. He remains with them, working on the farm and studying in night school. Six years later, and by now grown up, he bravely stops a runaway carriage in a nearby lane; only afterwards does he discover that one of its occupants was Eva Lawrence. Benny has saved his 'angel's' life; now she reveals that she and her father have long known that he was innocent of the theft. The grateful Mr. Lawrence offers Benny a new job, this time as his clerk; he returns to Liverpool, to work his way up into partnership with Mr. Lawrence, and marriage with Eva.
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