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"In Victorian times, when the existence of a 'family enterprise' was still prominent, a father's occupation had an immense impact on the lives of middle-class women. It shaped their lives and affected the construction of their identity, especially as middle-class women had few qualifications of their own. As the Church of England steered its way through the expansion of Nonconformist sects, the threats of disestablishment, the spread of 'intellectual doubt', and the agricultural depression, the lives of the inhabitants of individual parsonages were influenced by the Church's reactions to these crises. The circumstances of the daughters of its clerics would, in turn, come to shape Church attitudes towards women's causes; the emotional tie between father and daughter often underpinned such institutional views. Midori Yamaguchi reveals links between lives in Victorian parsonages, women's educational reform, strategies of the Church of England, the growth of Victorian charity, the expansion of women's occupations and the development of feminism"--
List of contents
Introduction PART: TO BE BORN IN THE 'RELIGIOUS FAMILY ENTERPRISE' 1. The Birth of a 'Religious Family Enterprise' 2. Growing Up as a Clerical Child PART II: HER FATHER'S FLOCK: CLERGY DAUGHTERS AS YOUNG LADIES 3. 'There is Special Work before Us': Parish Work 4. 'My Duty Is to Get Acquainted with Everybody': Networks Over and Above the Church Network PART III: THE CLERGY DAUGHTERS' MISSION 5. Love: Sexuality, Marriage and Widowhood 6. Faith: Development and Crisis 7. Hope: Self-fulfilment PART IV: CODA 8. The Family of an Essex Clergyman's Daughter: Two Generations of the Bramston and Luard Families of Essex Conclusion
About the author
Midori Yamaguchi is a Professor at Daito Bunka University, Japan. Her publications include 'The Religious Rebellion of a Clergyman's Daughter', Women's History Review, 16.5 (2007).
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“Daughters of the Anglican Clergy weaves together a great deal of material and presents a thoughtful analysis of the lives of a significant group of women in nineteenth century England.” (Martin Wellings, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, 2018)
“In this thoroughly researched monograph, Midori Yamaguchi offers a collective portrait of the lives of the female children of Anglican clerics during the nineteenth century. … many readers will profit from Yamaguchi’s distillation of the experience of this key aspect of the clerical household in Victorian England and her admirable ability to do this in a language other than her own native Japanese.” (Arthur Burns, English Historical Review, April, 2016)
“Daughters of Anglican Clergy is an innovative and well-documented study which contributes to the social and religious history of Victorian England, as well as to nineteenth-century women's history.” (Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 84 (2), June, 2015)
"Yamaguchi is successful in her aim of highlighting the agency of clergy daughters throughout the Victorian era. Daughters of the Anglican Clergy is an accessible, well-written and nicely illustrated volume. Though Yamaguchi is correct to stress the extent to which clergy daughters' lives were unique during this period, her study nonetheless provides a telling contribution which speaks to the broader experience of middle-class daughters in Victorian England." - Women's History Review
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"Daughters of the Anglican Clergy weaves together a great deal of material and presents a thoughtful analysis of the lives of a significant group of women in nineteenth century England." (Martin Wellings, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture, 2018)
"In this thoroughly researched monograph, Midori Yamaguchi offers a collective portrait of the lives of the female children of Anglican clerics during the nineteenth century. ... many readers will profit from Yamaguchi's distillation of the experience of this key aspect of the clerical household in Victorian England and her admirable ability to do this in a language other than her own native Japanese." (Arthur Burns, English Historical Review, April, 2016)
"Daughters of Anglican Clergy is an innovative and well-documented study which contributes to the social and religious history of Victorian England, as well as to nineteenth-century women's history." (Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 84 (2), June, 2015)
"Yamaguchi is successful in her aim of highlighting the agency of clergy daughters throughout the Victorian era. Daughters of the Anglican Clergy is an accessible, well-written and nicely illustrated volume. Though Yamaguchi is correct to stress the extent to which clergy daughters' lives were unique during this period, her study nonetheless provides a telling contribution which speaks to the broader experience of middle-class daughters in Victorian England." - Women's History Review
