Daughters of the Anglican Clergy

Midori Yamaguchi is a Professor at Daito Bunka University, Japan. Her publications include 'The Religious Rebellion of a Clergyman's Daughter', Women's History Review, 16.5 (2007).

"In this thoroughly researched monograph, Midori Yamaguchi offers a collective portrait of the lives of the female children of Anglican clerics during the nineteenth century. ... many readers will profit from Yamaguchi's distillation of the experience of this key aspect of the clerical household in Victorian England and her admirable ability to do this in a language other than her own native Japanese." (Arthur Burns, English Historical Review, April, 2016) "Yamaguchi is successful in her aim of highlighting the agency of clergy daughters throughout the Victorian era. Daughters of the Anglican Clergy is an accessible, well-written and nicely illustrated volume. Though Yamaguchi is correct to stress the extent to which clergy daughters' lives were unique during this period, her study nonetheless provides a telling contribution which speaks to the broader experience of middle-class daughters in Victorian England." - Women's History Review

• Introduction PART: TO BE BORN IN THE 'RELIGIOUS FAMILY ENTERPRISE' 1. The Birth of a 'Religious Family Enterprise' 2. Growing Up as a Clerical Child PART II: HER FATHER'S FLOCK: CLERGY DAUGHTERS AS YOUNG LADIES 3. 'There is Special Work before Us': Parish Work 4. 'My Duty Is to Get Acquainted with Everybody': Networks Over and Above the Church Network PART III: THE CLERGY DAUGHTERS' MISSION 5. Love: Sexuality, Marriage and Widowhood 6. Faith: Development and Crisis 7. Hope: Self-fulfilment PART IV: CODA 8. The Family of an Essex Clergyman's Daughter: Two Generations of the Bramston and Luard Families of Essex Conclusion