Domestic biography
Subtitle: the legacy of evangelicalism in four nineteenth-century families
By: Christopher Tolley
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Evangelists -- England -- Biography -- History and criticism; Clapham Sect -- Biography -- History and criticism
Description: An account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households and the author uses documents from the archives of four families to analyze the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index