Women of Faith in Victorian Culture

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Anne Hogan, Andrew Bradstock

   Pages 1-5

3. The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: the Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis

   • Henrietta Twycross-Martin

   Pages 6-30

4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Rejecting the Angel’s Influence

   • Siv Jansson

   Pages 31-47

5. Double Blessedness: Anna Kingsford and Beatrice

   • Peter Merchant

   Pages 48-62

6. Sisterhood is Powerful: Christina Rosetti’s Maude

   • Frederick S. Roden

   Pages 63-77

7. Fedalma — ‘The Angel of a Homeless Tribe’: Issues of Religion, Race and Gender in George Eliot’s Poetic Drama, The Spanish Gypsy

   • Joss West-Burnham

   Pages 78-90

8. Angel or Eve?: Victorian Catholicism and the Angel in the House

   • Anne Hogan

   Pages 91-100

9. From Hearth to Heath: Angelic Transformations in May Sinclair’s Major Novels

   • Terry Phillips

   Pages 101-116

10. The Angel in the House of Death: Gender and Identity in George MacDonald’s Lilith

    • William Gray

    Pages 117-127

11. Quiet Angels: Some Women Hymn Writers

    • J. R. Watson

    Pages 128-144

12. Nonconformist Obituaries: How Stereotyped Was Their View of Women?

    • Linda Wilson

    Pages 145-158

13. The Paradigmatic Angel in the House: The Virgin Mary and Victorian Anglicans

    • Carol Marie Engelhardt

    Pages 159-171

14. Heroines of Missionary Adventure: The Portrayal of Victorian Women Missionaries in Popular Fiction and Biography

    • Sean Gill

    Pages 172-185

15. The Victorian Lady’s Domestic Threat: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent Female Adversary in Contemporary Art

    • Susan P. Casteras

    Pages 186-208

16. The Power of Womanhood — Religion and Sexual Politics in the Writings of Ellice Hopkins

    • Sue Morgan

    Pages 209-224

17. Back Matter

    Pages 225-230

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An interdisciplinary study of Victorian women of faith as portrayed in the fiction and non-fiction of the period. The book explores how novelists, biographers and other writers depicted religious women, with special reference to the influence of the ideal of the 'Angel in the House' as embodied in Coventry Patmore's poem of that name. Among those whose work is explored are George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, George Moore and Anne Bront� as well as hymnwriters, missionary biographers, non-conformist obituarists and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.

• culture
• drama
• fiction
• gender
• novel
• religion
• women

This book makes a worthy contribution in showing how women of faith adapted the angel to their need for autonomy. Religion and the Arts

• Department of English, University of Southampton New College, UK

  Anne Hogan

• Department of Theology, University of Southampton New College, UK

  Andrew Bradstock

HENRIETTA TWYCROSS MARTIN Lecturer, English Department, Goldsmith's College SIV JANSSON former Lecturer at Imperial College, the University of North London, Middlesex University and Royal Holloway and New Bedford College PETER MERCHANT Senior Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church College FREDERICK S. RODEN Doctoral candidate, Department of English, New York University JOSS WEST-BURNHAM Subject Leader in Cultural Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University TERRY PHILLIPS Lecturer in English, Liverpool Hope University College WILLIAM GRAY teaches in both the English and the Religious Studies departments, Chichester Institute of Higher Education J.R. WATSON Professor of English, University of Durham LINDA WILSON Part-time tutor, Wesley College, Bristol CAROL MARIE ENGELHARDT Department of History, Indiana University SEAN GILL Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol SUSAN P. CASTERAS teaches at the University of Washington SUE MORGAN is engaged in doctoral research in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol MARY GREY Professor of Contemporary Theology, LSU College, Southampton.

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