‘Out by the Same Door as in I Went'

The first four years following Hankey’s return to England began with his resigning his commission to read for the Church at Oxford, and ended in his postponement of ordination to become a lay worker in Bermondsey. Letters, journals, confessional writing and memoirs of this period suggest a man swimming against the tide, wayward, impetuous and impatient of any authority other than that self-imposed by some personally formulated literary and religious credo.