Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century
Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century
Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
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Until now, the female missionary has appeared to be absent from 19th century literature. This book provides new readings of texts such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to reveal the presence of the female missionary in 19th century writing, arguing that the character influenced cultural debates about religion, gender and domesticity