Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: the Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis....Pages 6-30
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Rejecting the Angel’s Influence....Pages 31-47
Double Blessedness: Anna Kingsford and Beatrice....Pages 48-62
Sisterhood is Powerful: Christina Rosetti’s Maude....Pages 63-77
Fedalma — ‘The Angel of a Homeless Tribe’: Issues of Religion, Race and Gender in George Eliot’s Poetic Drama, The Spanish Gypsy....Pages 78-90
Angel or Eve?: Victorian Catholicism and the Angel in the House....Pages 91-100
From Hearth to Heath: Angelic Transformations in May Sinclair’s Major Novels....Pages 101-116
The Angel in the House of Death: Gender and Identity in George MacDonald’s Lilith....Pages 117-127
Quiet Angels: Some Women Hymn Writers....Pages 128-144
Nonconformist Obituaries: How Stereotyped Was Their View of Women?....Pages 145-158
The Paradigmatic Angel in the House: The Virgin Mary and Victorian Anglicans....Pages 159-171
Heroines of Missionary Adventure: The Portrayal of Victorian Women Missionaries in Popular Fiction and Biography....Pages 172-185
The Victorian Lady’s Domestic Threat: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent Female Adversary in Contemporary Art....Pages 186-208
The Power of Womanhood — Religion and Sexual Politics in the Writings of Ellice Hopkins....Pages 209-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-230