Labour, love and prayer : female piety in Ulster religious literature, 1850-1914 /
Brożyna, Andrea Ebel,1965-
Queen's University of Belfast.Institute of Irish Studies.
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,
1999.
Co-published by Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : setting the scene -- "The right to labour, love, and pray" : the cult of domesticity in Ulster religious literature -- The Virgin Mary : model of Christian female spirituality -- Women of the Bible and early church : mortal sinners and model saints -- "A future of blessing and service" : the moral education of Ulster girls -- "The wind in women's wings" : defining roles for women in Ulster protestant churches -- "The cursed cup hath cast her down" : images of women in Ulster temperance literature -- "She hath done what she could" : the gendered construction of female piety in Ulster protestant women's missionary literature -- Conclusion.
Religious literature, English
Women in literature.
Piety in literature.
Women