The Victorian Clergyman (Shire Library)

The Victorian clergyman is a familiar character in the fiction of the period, especially in the novels of Anthony Trollope and George Eliot. Through text and pictures, this book sets out to tell their story and to set them firmly in the context of the nineteenth-century Church of England, revealing how they differed from the clergy of the present day. Trevor May is an historian who retired from the University of Hertfordshire in 1993. His principal interests are in nineteenth-century economic, social and local history. He is the author of some fifteen books, including nine Shire Albums. Other titles for Shire by this author are: The Victorian Domestic Servant Military Barracks The Victorian Undertaker (currently out of print), The Victorian Schoolroom The Victorian Railway Worker Victorian and Edwardian Horse Cabs (currently out of print) The Victorian Workhouse Victorian and Edwardian Prisons