Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide, Australia. Her previous publications include Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman (2011) and, as editor, Medicine, Health and Being Human (2018).

Insightful and comprehensive ... [Scholl's] work presents a fascinating and sagacious study of how four popular Victorian women writers, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Josephine Butler, and Alice Meynell incorporated their personal responses to the religious and social discourses around food restraint and fasting into their writings.

• Introduction: Ethical Food Restraint: Choosing ModerationChapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, Ethical Economics and Ethical EatingChapter 2: Christina Rossetti, Spiritual Growth and Social JusticeChapter 3: Josephine Butler’s Hagiography as Social ProphecyChapter 4: Alice Meynell’s Complex Relationship to the Health of the BodyConclusion: One BodyBibliography

Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide, Australia. Her previous publications include Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman (2011) and, as editor, Medicine, Health and Being Human (2018).

Insightful and comprehensive ... [Scholl's] work presents a fascinating and sagacious study of how four popular Victorian women writers, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Josephine Butler, and Alice Meynell incorporated their personal responses to the religious and social discourses around food restraint and fasting into their writings.

• Introduction: Ethical Food Restraint: Choosing ModerationChapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, Ethical Economics and Ethical EatingChapter 2: Christina Rossetti, Spiritual Growth and Social JusticeChapter 3: Josephine Butler’s Hagiography as Social ProphecyChapter 4: Alice Meynell’s Complex Relationship to the Health of the BodyConclusion: One BodyBibliography

Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide, Australia. Her previous publications include Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman (2011) and, as editor, Medicine, Health and Being Human (2018).

Insightful and comprehensive ... [Scholl's] work presents a fascinating and sagacious study of how four popular Victorian women writers, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Josephine Butler, and Alice Meynell incorporated their personal responses to the religious and social discourses around food restraint and fasting into their writings.

• Introduction: Ethical Food Restraint: Choosing ModerationChapter 1: Elizabeth Gaskell, Ethical Economics and Ethical EatingChapter 2: Christina Rossetti, Spiritual Growth and Social JusticeChapter 3: Josephine Butler’s Hagiography as Social ProphecyChapter 4: Alice Meynell’s Complex Relationship to the Health of the BodyConclusion: One BodyBibliography