A History of Women in the British Churches
A Biographical Dictionary, 1880-1960
A History of Women in the British Churches
A Biographical Dictionary, 1880-1960
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This book draws together the biographies of 150 women of note in the sphere of modern British religious history in an age in which the Christian laity was far greater in number and more ubiquitous and influential in the life of society itself. Between 1880 and 1960 all of the British churches experienced extraordinary levels of popular participation, in public worship, social, educational and charitable enterprises and international work across the world. Social and cultural historians have widely observed that this rich and creative realm often represented a culture in which numbers of women and children often far outweighed those of men, and not only in statistical terms. In fact, in the great age of British mass democracy the worlds of Church and Chapel yielded opportunities for women that far exceeded those of conventional politics or trades unionism. This volume seeks to shine a light on how those women could be found at work at the grass roots level in local congregations across towns and villages, as well as in national and international bodies, be they charitable, Religious, missionary, social or ecumenical in character. It also strives to offer an inclusive history, highlighting the impact of non-white women from a range of social and ethnic backgrounds who were active in various roles in British churches during this period.
A History of Women in the British Churches shows how it was often women who provided the organizational force behind church life up and down the land, as well as producing much of the essential literature and culture of British Christianity at large. It recovers vital individual life histories and re-creates the local, national, organisational, and literary networks within which those individuals worked to give us a far more sophisticated appreciation of the contribution made by women to life in modern Britain.
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Table of Contents
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Henrietta Barnett - social reformer (Anglican)
Kathleen Bliss - ecumenist and internationalist (Anglican)
Bertha Bracey - international refugee workers (Quaker)
Amy Buller - international relations (Anglican)
Dorothy Buxton - international politics (Anglican)
Mildred Cable - missionary and translator
Constance Coltman - minister (Congregationalist)
Louise Creighton - author and reformer (Anglican)
Caroline Duncan-Jones - writer (Anglican)
Margaret Dunlop Gibson - scholar (Presbyterian)
Evangeline and Francesca French - missionaries and translators
Ruth Fry - philanthropist and campaigner (Quaker)
Lucy Gardner - organizer in social politics (Quaker)
Violet Hedger - minister (Baptist)
Ellice Hopkins – social reformer (Anglican)
Dorothy Howell Thomas - writer (Quaker)
Annie Isherwood (Mother Cecil) – missionary
Eglantyne Jebb - philanthropist and reformer (Anglican)
Ruth Kenyon - Christian politics and economics (Anglican)
Edith Langridge (Mother Edith) – Anglican Sister
Laura Livingstone - international refugee workers (Anglican)
Rose Macaulay - writer, diarist and novelist (Anglican)
Dorothy Meads - educationalist (Anglican)
Alice Meynell - poet and writer (Roman Catholic)
Constance Padwick - scholar and missionary (Anglican)
Margaret Pawley - ecumenist and writer (Anglican)
Maude Petre - Modernist and writer (Roman Catholic)
Ruth Rouse - internationalist and ecumenist (Anglican)
Maude Royden - campaigner (Anglican)
Constance Smith - political scientist and economist (Anglican)
Agnes Smith Lewis - scholar (Presbyterian)
Julie Sutter - Christian socialist
Evelyn Underhill - scholar (Anglican)
Helen Waddell - translator and scholar (Anglican)
Barbara Ward - theologian and ecumenist (Roman Catholic)
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Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 400 |
| ISBN | 9781350321236 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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