The Life and Afterlives of Captain Hedley Vicars: Evangelical Biography and the Crimean War
Journal: 19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Year: 2015

<p class="MsoNormal">This article argues that one of the most influential responses to the Crimean War, and indeed one of the most widely known books of the mid-century, was the work of a woman: the middle-class evangelical Miss Catherine Marsh’s biography of her friend Captain Hedley Vicars. In this book (first published in December 1855), she forged an image of Crimean heroism compatible with Christian piety and good works, and in doing so provided a valued point of connection and identificati