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DOMESTIC BIOGRAPHY
THE LEGACY OF EVANGELICALISM IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY FAMILIES |
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Christopher Tolley |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
0198206518 |
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9780198206514 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
6 March, 1997 |
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Oxford Historical Monographs |
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304 |
Description: |
This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents from the archives of the Macaulay, Stephen, Wilberforce, and Thornton families, Dr Tolley analyses the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon `familyvalues'. |
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Christopher Tolley examines the writing of biography in four Victorian families: the Macaulays, Stephens, Thorntons and Wilberforces. Their fathers had been memebers of the prominent group of evangelicals and philanthropists known as the Clapham sect, and their histories were shaped by a cultivated and demanding brand of evangelicalism, which left its mark even when the parental faith was lost. The family biographers celebrate this common legacy, testifying to the success of the evangelical movement in its campaign on behalf of domestic piety. The tradition of biography is given fact and form by the wealth of documentation produced within evangelical homes, to which later generations added their significant contribution. Dr Tolley draws extensively on unpublished material in the family archives, discusses the uses and conventions of nineteenth-century domestic biography, and explores its close relationship with other kinds of private family writing. The result is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. |
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4 genealogy tables |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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Winner of Winner of the Whitfield Prize for 1997. |
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