Anglican Women Novelists - From Charlotte Bronte to P.D. James

What do the novelists Charlotte Bronte, 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.>

Product details

• Authors: Judith Maltby, Judith (Corpus Christi College Maltby, Alison Shell
• Assisted by: Judith Maltby (Editor), Judith (Corpus Christi College Maltby (Editor), Alison Shell (Editor), Alison (University College London Shell (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780567665850
• ISBN: 978-0-567-66585-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Anglican and Episcopalian Churches, Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England