Anglican Women Novelists

What do the novelists Charlotte Brontë Charlotte M. Yonge Rose Macaulay Dorothy L. Sayers Barbara Pym Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women and others were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This field-defining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism.<br/> <br/>These essays by a set of distinguished contributors cover a range of literary genres from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy children's books and supernatural fiction. Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of England and wider society.