- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What do the novelists Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This field-defining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism. These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors, cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy, children's books and supernatural fiction. Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of England and wider society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Anglican; Why Women; Why Novelists?
- 1. Charlotte Brontë (1816–55): An Anglican Imagination
- 2. Charlotte Maria Tucker, ‘A.L.O.E.’ (1821–93): Anglican Evangelicalism and National Identity
- 3. Margaret Oliphant (1828–97): Opening Doors of Interpretation
- 4. Charlotte M. Yonge (1823–1901): Writing for the Church
- 5. Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941): Mysticism in Fiction
- 6. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957): God and the Detective
- 7. Rose Macaulay (1881–1958): Anglican Apologist?
- 8. Barbara Pym (1913–80): Anglican Anthropologies
- 9. Elizabeth Goudge (1900–84): Clergymen and Masculinity
- 10. Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986): Vicarage and Other Families
- 11. Iris Murdoch (1919–99): Anglican Atheist
- 12. Monica Furlong (1930–2003): ‘With Love to the Church’
- 13. P.D. James (1920–2014): ‘Lighten Our Darkness’
- Afterword
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index
- Imprint