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- Title
Beatification through Beautification: Poetry in The Christian Lady's Magazine, 1834-1849.
- Authors
Gray, F. Elizabeth
- Abstract
This article focuses on devotional verses of few Victorian women. Numerous volumes of hymns appeared well before the 1861 Anglican standard, Hymns Ancient and Modern; such hymns as Sarah Flower Adams' "Nearer, my God, to Thee" and Mrs. Alexander's "All Things Bright and Beautiful" were profound popular successes. Cynthia Scheinberg's important "Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England" presents an urgent demand for a new analysis of women's devotional verse. Foremost female devotional writer of her time was Christina Rossetti and in recent years scholars have begun reading Rossetti's devotional prose and poetry for the provocative ways in which these writings negotiate with their biblical sources and work to incorporate rather than cancel out female experience.
- Subjects
DEVOTIONS; RELIGION &; poetry; ADAMS, Sarah Flower, 1805-1848; SCHEINBERG, Cynthia; RELIGION &; literature; RELIGION in literature; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2004.0050