Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century
sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological …

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the" religious sex," but their
relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly …

As a seven-year-old child, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (1790–1846) first encountered
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Because she was sick and could not attend the play …

To the modern reader, women assuming leadership roles in and through the Church may
not seem as scandalous as bigamy, incest, cisgender transgressions, or even a lady …

Few features of mid-nineteenth-century American women's literature seem as foreign and
outdated today as the omnipresence of hymns. In countless literary works, hymns are …

The RSVP Bibliography includes citations for books, articles, and reviews published
between December 2003 and December 2005 m tne field of nineteenth-century journalism …

Not wishing to duplicate the timelines in this volume or those available in works such as
Brake and Demoor's Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism or Griffiths's Encyclopedia …

Abstract The Poetry of Religion and the Prose of Life: From Evangelicalism to Immanence in
British Women's Writing, 1835-1925” traces a tradition of religious women poets and …

Christina Rossettis novella Maude displays Tractarian influences in terms of Holy Eucharist,
Puseyism, and the doctrine of Reserve. Tractarianism is High Church revival movement of …

A powerful mode of personal expression came to nineteenth-century women through middle-
class Christianity, which sanctified women as domestic saviors, guardians of the home, and …