Womens Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century

Auteur

Angharad Eyre currently teaches in the English Department at Queen Mary University of London and lives in the city with her husband and two small children.

Texte du rabat

Until now, the female missionary has appeared to be absent from 19th century literature. This book provides new readings of texts such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to reveal the presence of the female missionary in 19th century writing, arguing that the character influenced cultural debates about religion, gender and domesticity

Contenu

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Prologue - Ann Judson and Harriet Newell: Immortalising the Female Missionary

Part I: 18301870

1. Tales of Female Missionary Sacrifice: Tracts, Collective Biographies and Newsletters

2. Missionary Self-Sacrifice in the Domestic Sphere: The Tracts and Novels of Martha Sherwood, Hesba Stretton and Dinah Craik

3. Novel Approaches to Missionary Sacrifice: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell

Part II: 18801900

4. Missionaries of the New: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner and Margaret Harkness

5. Women, Religion and Power: University Women's Missionary Writing

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index