''The Vicar of Wrexhill'' is an 1837 novel by the British writer
Frances Milton Trollope, originally published in
three volumes
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literatur ...
. The
High Church Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
Trollope was heavily critical of the
Evangelical movement. It has been described as a "scurrilous" critique of
Low church Evangelical Anglicanism
Evangelical Anglicanism or evangelical Episcopalianism is a tradition or church party within Anglicanism that shares affinity with broader evangelicalism. Evangelical Anglicans share with other evangelicals the attributes of "conversionism, a ...
, often referred to in the novel as
Calvinist Doctrine. It is Frances Milton Trollope's best remembered novel, with the protagonist resembling Mr Slope in her son
Anthony Trollop's ''
Barchester Towers
''Barchester Towers'' is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longmans in 1857. It is the second book in the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire'' series, preceded by ''The Warden'' and followed by ''Doctor Thorne''. Among other thing ...
''.
[Wagner p.7]
Synopsis
A shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affection of a wealthy young widow, to the concern of her sister and other relatives.
References
Bibliography
* Rosman, Doreen. ''Evangelicals and Culture: Second Edition''. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2011.
* Thorne-Murphy, Leslee. ''Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction''. Oxford University Press, 2023.
* Wagner, Tamara. ''Frances Trollope: Beyond “Domestic Manners”''. Routledge, 2013.
1837 British novels
Novels by Frances Milton Trollope
Novels set in England
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