The Odd-Fellows' Offering for 1852

About this book

The Odd-Fellows' Offering brings poems, stories and illustrations into the world of a nineteenth-century fraternal order. Its pages were made to be read in the home as well as among fellow members.

The 1852 annual combines literary entertainment with the values of friendship, charity and remembrance associated with the Odd Fellows. Illustrated gift books like this helped carry an organisation's identity beyond the lodge room. The mixture of sentimental writing and fine presentation tells its own social story: an association of members seeking a place within the respectable family library.