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Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters book cover

1st Edition

Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters

By Angharad Eyre Copyright 2023
264 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Prologue - Ann Judson and Harriet Newell: Immortalising the Female Missionary

Part I: 1830–1870

1. Tales of Female Missionary Sacrifice: Tracts, Collective Biographies and Newsletters

2. Missionary Self-Sacrifice in the Domestic Sphere: The Tracts and Novels of Martha Sherwood, Hesba Stretton and Dinah Craik

3. Novel Approaches to Missionary Sacrifice: Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell

Part II: 1880–1900

4. Missionaries of the New: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner and Margaret Harkness

5. Women, Religion and Power: University Women’s Missionary Writing

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Angharad Eyre currently teaches in the English Department at Queen Mary University of London and lives in the city with her husband and two small children.

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