Most of the high profile female writers of this period were committed Christians. The Broad Church Brontës, the Unitarian Mrs Gaskell and the systematically unconventional Emily Dickinson made much use of their faith in their work. So did George Eliot, supersaturated with a religion in which she no longer believed, yet an accomplished theologian. The male writers were often committed believers too, despite the apparently worldly outlook of many, including apparently cynical Thackeray and robustly conventional Trollope.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | The Victorians: Life and Death (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 2 | The Victorians: Religion and Science (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 3 | The Victorians: Time and Space (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 4 | The Victorians: Art and Culture (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | Literature and Victorian Religion |
Most of the high profile female writers of this period were committed Christians. The Broad... |
Julian Thompson |
| 2 | The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry |
Despite the publication of Darwin's radical text On the Origin of Species (1859),which... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 3 | Character and Environment in Thomas Hardy's Fiction |
Thomas Hardy was born in Upper Bockhampton, Dorset and lived within the county for much of his... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 4 | Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist and poet, was born on 2 June 1840, in Higher Bockhampton,... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 5 | Walt Whitman |
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on May 31, 1819, to a large, working-class family in Long... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 6 | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 in Essex, England. He studied Classics at Balliol College... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 7 | Science and Religion |
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, William Paley published Natural Theology (... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
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| 1 | The Woodlanders |
ebook version of The Woodlanders |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
| 2 | On the Origin of Species |
Publisher info: London: John Murray, 1859. |
Charles Darwin |
| 3 | The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (vol 1) | Thomas Hardy | |
| 4 | The Woodlanders |
In three volumes. |
Thomas Hardy |
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| 1 | Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass [1860] |
Page images of Walt Whitman’s personal copy of the 1860 Leaves, known as the “Blue Book,” with... |