The Death of Christian Britain

— Notes to pages 54–58 —
67 Quoted in H. Cunningham, Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, London,
Croom Helm, 1980, p. 103.
68 One piano manufacturer, Broadwood’s, produced pianos at the rate of 19 per
year during 1718–82, 400 per year during 1782–1802, and 1,680 per year during
1802–24. Routley, English Carol, p. 169.
69 A.T. Taylor, Labour and Love: An Oral History of the Brass Band Movement,
London, Elm Tree Books, 1983.
70 The General Baptist Repository, 1 January 1824, p. 7.
71 J. Blackburn, The Salvation of Britain Introductory to the Conversion of the
World, London, Jackson & Walford, 1835, pp. 15–22.
72 The Christian Miscellany and Family Visitor, December 1867, pp. 364–5.
73 British Weekly, 5 November 1886, p. 1.
74 G.W. Haughton, Free Salvation; or God’s Gift of the Saviour, Stirling,
Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1901, p. 7.
75 Cf. Hugh McLeod, who has written that ‘sectarianism provided for large
numbers of people the strongest basis for their social identity’, resulting in
‘self-built ideological ghettos’. H. McLeod, Religion and the People of Western
Europe 1789–1989, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 36.
76 Heimann, Catholic Devotion, pp. 35, 152, 195–9; L.H. Lees, Exiles of Erin:
Irish Migrants in Victorian London, Manchester, Manchester University Press,
1979, pp. 172–97; B. Aspinwall, ‘The formation of the Catholic community in
the west of Scotland: some preliminary outlines’, Innes Review, 1982, vol. 33
pp. 47, 53; B. Aspinwall and J. McCaffrey, ‘A comparative view of the Irish
in Edinburgh in the nineteenth-century’, in R. Swift and S. Gilley (eds), The
Irish in the Victorian City, London, Croom Helm, 1985, pp. 135–9.
77 Good News, January 1923, p. 3.
4 ANGELS: WOMEN IN DISCOURSE AND
NARRATIVE 1800–1950
1 N. Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth,
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982, pp. 64, 71–108.
2 M.R. Miles, Carnal Knowledge: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in
the Christian West, New York, Vintage, 1991, pp. 53–77; P. Crawford, Women
and Religion in England 1500–1720, London, Routledge, 1993, p. 25.
3 D. Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in
Tudor and Stuart England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, esp. pp.
475–82.
4 Crawford, Women and Religion, pp. 73–115; C. Larner, Enemies of God: The
Witch-hunt in Scotland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983.
5 J. Gregory, ‘Homo Religiosus: masculinity and religion in the long eighteenth
century’, in T. Hitchcock and M. Cohen (eds), English Masculinity 1660–1800,
London, Longman, 1999, p. 105.
6 For this section, I have benefited enormously from Sue Morgan’s comments,
and from reading S. Morgan, A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the
Politics of Gender in the late-Victorian Church, Bristol, Centre for Comparative
Studies in Religion and Gender, 1999, esp. pp. 6–43.
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