The Victorian Parson - Hardcover

Turner, Barry

 
9781445644431: The Victorian Parson
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1445644436 ISBN 13: 9781445644431
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The Victorian parson is an unsung hero. Legend and literature portray him as a buffoon or a charlatan; at best, he is the bearer of a thin veneer of piety as a cover for hypocrisy, and it is true that stories of louche, lazy or plain loony vicars are easy to come by.However, amid the unprecedented technological and commercial turmoil of the nineteenth century, the Church moved to the centre of the nation s affairs and took on new and important responsibilities. Campaigning for new schools, healthier living conditions and providing humanitarian values, the vicar became the champion for the lower classes despite remote and hostile communities, churches that were barely fit for purpose and uncooperative local landowners. With a wealth of diary entries and other first-hand accounts, this beautifully written history sees society from the viewpoint of the parson at the centre of his community a community in the throes of economic, spiritual, architectural, social and scientific revolution.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barry Turner is a writer and editor. He is the author of over thirty books, the most recent being 'Outpost of Occupation', an account of life in the Channel Islands during the war, and 'Beacon of Change', the story of the 1951 Festival of Britain. A founding member of the National Academy of Writing, he edited the annual 'Writer s Handbook' for twenty-five years and 'The Statesman s Yearbook', a gazetteer of world facts, for seventeen years. Barry lives in London and south-west France.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1445644436
ISBN 13 
9781445644431
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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