ABSTRACT
This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. This second volume is called ‘Mission and Reform’ and it considers the social and political importance of religious faith and practice as expressed through foreign and domestic mission and philanthropic and political movements at home and abroad.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|104 pages
The Foreign Mission Movement
section 1.1|12 pages
Gaining Support
chapter 1|9 pages
Dialogue between a Minister and a Parishioner concerning the Church Missionary Society
([London]: Church Missionary Society, c. 1830–1839), pp. 1–12 [abridged]
section 1.2|14 pages
Children
chapter 2|5 pages
E. M. I., ‘Lessons from Heathen Lands;
In Missionary Stories (London: John Snow, 1843–1844), pp. 3–8
chapter 3|5 pages
John Campbell, Worlds Displayed for the Benefit of Young People by a Familiar History of Some of their Inhabitants [1802]
In The Juvenile Cabinet of Travels and Narratives for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons (London: Francis Westley, 1825), pp. 101–102, 105–107, 124, 126–129, 137
section 1.3|18 pages
Women and Authority in the Mission Field
chapter 4|4 pages
Memoirs of Female Labourers in the Missionary Cause
(Bath: [n.p.], 1839), Introduction by Richard Knill, pp. v–vii; Preface, pp. 1–9
chapter 5|5 pages
Female Missionary Intelligencer [1853]
(Dublin: SPFEE, 1854), vol. I, pp. 1–4, 15–17
chapter 6|5 pages
Pandita Ramabai, ‘Report’
Report of the Annual Meeting of the Ramabai Association (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1892), pp. 21–27
section 1.4|21 pages
Masculinity and Leadership
chapter 7|9 pages
Soldiership and Christianity: Being a Review of the Memoirs of the Late Hedley Vicars
(London: Ward and Co., 1856), pp. 3–16 [abridged]
chapter 9|6 pages
A. F. Childe, Good out of Evil; or, the History of Adjai the African Slave-Boy
(London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 1850), pp. 80–97, 100–101, 108–110, 114–121
section 1.5|15 pages
Ethnography and Anthropology
chapter 10|5 pages
Robert Moffat, Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
(London: John Snow, 1843), pp. 1–15 [abridged]
chapter 11|6 pages
George Taplin [and James Ngunaitponi], The Narrinyeri
In Woods (ed.), The Native Tribes of South Australia (Adelaide: Wigg and Son, 1879), pp. 1–2, 34–36, 48–51, 128–129
section 1.6|20 pages
Biblical History, Geography and Travel Writing
chapter 12|4 pages
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, ‘Palestine’ [1826]
In Osric: A Missionary Tale, with The Garden and Other Poems (Dublin: Curry, [n.d.]), pp. 43–48
chapter 14|9 pages
Constance Maynard, Contributions to Hermes (Westfield College Newsletter), 1898–1900
(i) ‘A Few Pages from a Diary’, Hermes, 12 (1898), Queen Mary Archives, WFD/23/3, pp. 8–10; (ii) ‘A Few Pages from a Diary (Continued)’, Hermes, 13 (1899), Queen Mary Archives, WFD/23/3, pp. 13–15; (iii) ‘Letter from the Mistress’, Hermes, 17 (1900), Queen Mary Archives, WFD/23/3, pp. 10–12.
part 2|74 pages
Home Missions
section 2.1|8 pages
Unitarian Home Missionary Board
chapter 15|5 pages
[John Relly Beard], ‘Unitarian Home Missionary Board’
Privately circulated, 1853, University of Manchester Library, Unitarian College Collection, UCC 1/6/2/3
section 2.2|12 pages
University Settlements
chapter 16|3 pages
Frederick Rogers, The New Movement at the Universities and What May Come of it, by a Whitechapel Man
([n.p.]: [n.p.], [1886])
chapter 17|5 pages
Lady Margaret Hall Newsletter
(i)‘The Women’s University Settlement’, Old Students’ Association Newsletter (Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall, 1894), pp. 10–13; (ii) ‘Opening of the Lady Margaret Hall New Buildings’ and (iii) ‘Proposed LMH Settlement’, Old Students’ Association Newsletter (Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall, 1896), pp. 12–18, 19–23; (iv) ‘The Settlement’, Old Students’ Association Newsletter (Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall, 1897), pp. 10–11
section 2.3|20 pages
Revivalism
chapter 18|7 pages
Phoebe Palmer, Four Years in the Old World: Comprising the Travels, Incidents, and Evangelical Labors of Dr and Mrs Palmer in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(New York: [n.p], 1866), pp. v, 84–85, 90–98, 106–107, 110–112
chapter 19|5 pages
Maurice Davies, ‘The “Twelve Days’ Mission”’
In Orthodox London: Or Phases of Religious Life in the Church of England, 2nd edn (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874), pp. 267, 269–271, 274–278, 279–282
chapter 20|4 pages
Society of St John the Evangelist (the Holy Cross), The Book of the Mission
(London: [n.p.], [1870]), pp. iv–v, 17–19
section 2.4|16 pages
The Salvation Army
chapter 21|2 pages
William Booth, Orders and Regulations for Field Officers
(London: Salvation Army, 1886), pp. 322–323
chapter 22|10 pages
The War Cry, 1895–1896
(i) ‘Quenched: Rescue Report for 1895’, The War Cry, 23 November 1895, p. 4; (ii) ‘Married Women Warriors’ The War Cry, 26 January 1895, p. 7; (iii) ‘Married Women Warriors’ The War Cry, 13 April 1895, p. 13; (iv) ‘Women Warriors’ The War Cry, 11 April 1896, p. 5.
section 2.5|16 pages
The Mission to the Jews
chapter 23|4 pages
London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, ‘Abstract of the 27th Report’
Jewish Intelligence, 1835, pp. 6–8, 15–16
chapter 24|2 pages
‘A Visit to the Chapel of the Hebrew Christian Brethren in London by a Converted Israelite’
The Christian Lady’s Friend and Family Repository, May 1832, pp. 421–423
chapter 25|6 pages
Osborn W. Trenery Heighway, Leila Ada: The Jewish Convert, an Authentic Memoir [1852]
(London: Partridge, Oakey and Co., 1854), pp. vii–xiii, 88–96
part 3|58 pages
Reforming Private Life
section 3.1|13 pages
Temperance
chapter 26|4 pages
William Gaskell, ‘Dread Memories!’, ‘A Mother’s Death-Song for her Child’, ‘Parting Words’ and ‘Heaven to Thee!’
In Temperance Rhymes (London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), pp. 15–17, 23, 67–69, 70–71
chapter 27|5 pages
The Importance of Sobriety Illustrated by the Evils of Intemperance
(London: RTS, c. 1850), pp. 1–7
section 3.2|12 pages
Sabbatarianism
chapter 29|4 pages
Edward Capern, ‘The Rural Postman’
In Poems (London: W. Kent and Co., 1859), pp. 9–13
section 3.3|14 pages
Fidelity in the Upper Classes
chapter 30|4 pages
‘Letter to a Friend in the Higher Circles of Society’
Christian Lady’s Friend and Family Repository, November 1831, pp. 101–105
chapter 31|6 pages
Arthur Selous, The Young Governess: A Tale for Girls
(London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, c. 1870–9), pp. 17–18, 26, 28–29, 39, 106–114
section 3.4|16 pages
Education
chapter 32|5 pages
Dinah Craik, Bread upon the Waters [1852]
In Bread upon the Waters; A Family in Love; A Low Marriage; The Double House (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1865), pp. 50–59, 70–72
chapter 33|3 pages
G. F. B., Charlie Brame: or What Came of Loitering
(London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1870), pp. 5–15
chapter 34|4 pages
Mary B. G. Slade, ‘The Missionary Meeting’
In For Week Evening Entertainment (London: Sunday School Union, 1887), pp. 1–4
part 4|101 pages
Social and Political Reform
section 4.1|17 pages
Abolitionism
chapter 35|7 pages
[Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick], ‘Remarks on the Descent of the Africans from Ham’
The Humming Bird, or Morsels of Information on the Subject of Slavery, 1, January 1825, pp. 35–38, 39–45
chapter 36|6 pages
Isaac Nelson, Slavery Supported by the American Churches and Countenanced by Recent Proceedings in the Free Church of Scotland
(Edinburgh: Charles Ziegler, 1847), pp. 2–7 [abridged]
section 4.2|18 pages
Prison Reform
chapter 37|3 pages
Mary Carpenter, ‘On Reformatory Schools and their Present Position’
In Jelinger Symons (ed.), On the Reformation of Young Offenders: A Collection of Pamphlets, Papers and Speeches on Reformatories and the Various Views Held on the Subject of Juvenile Crime and its Treatment (London: G. Routledge and Co., 1855), pp. 131–135, 138
chapter 38|6 pages
Walter Lowe Clay, The Prison Chaplain: A Memoir of the Reverend John Clay B.D. Late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol
(Cambridge: Macmillan, 1861), pp. vi–viii, 351–352, 356–361, 364–366, 368–370
chapter 39|5 pages
[Fred W. Robinson], Female Life in Prison: By a Prison Matron
2 vols (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862), vol. 1, pp. 1–9, 44–50
section 4.3|14 pages
Philanthropic Organisations
chapter 40|4 pages
Clara Collet, ‘George Gissing’s Novels’
Charity Organisation Review, May 1891, pp. 375–380 [abridged]
chapter 41|6 pages
Baroness Burdett Coutts: A Sketch of her Public Life and Work
(London: Unwin Bros, 1893), pp. 15–19, 21–23, 25–27, 105–110, 176–180
section 4.4|11 pages
Social Purity
chapter 43|4 pages
J. E. H. [Ellice Hopkins], Is it Natural?
(London: Hatchards, [1885]), pp. 3–13 [abridged]
section 4.5|20 pages
Christian Socialism
chapter 44|4 pages
Stewart Headlam, ‘The Service of Humanity’ and ‘The Stage’
In The Service of Humanity and other Sermons (London: J. Hodges, 1882), pp. 1, 3–7, 11, 13–18
chapter 45|6 pages
Eliza and John Trevor, The Labour Church Hymn Book
(Manchester: Labour Church Institute, [1895]), pp. 1–7 [abridged]
chapter 46|6 pages
John Clifford, Socialism and the Teaching of Christ
Fabian Tract no. 78 (London: Fabian Society, 1897), pp. 2–7, 10–11
section 4.6|17 pages
Women’s Suffrage
chapter 47|5 pages
[Barbara Bodichon], ‘How to Utilize the Powers of Women’
English Women’s Journal, vol. 3 (March 1859), pp. 34–35, 39–44, 46–47
chapter 49|5 pages
Gertrude Spielmann, ‘Woman’s Place in the Synagogue’
Jewish Review, 4 (1813–1814), pp. 24–28, 31–34, 36
