Our dear friend Hannah C. Backhouse is strong in the faith that light increasing, that the fields are white already for harvest, and that the Lord of the harvest is preparing and sending forth laborers into his harvest.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
He buys on one day Mr. Milbourn's books, and on the next all that Mr. Hawkins left; he sees Mrs. Backhouse of London about the purchase of her late husband's library.
"The Great Book-Collectors"
Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton
This was Uncle Richard's farm; a very tiny farm, where a man called John Backhouse lived, with his wife and two little girls and a baby-boy.
"Milly and Olly"
Mrs. Humphry Ward