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Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish
Magazine 1859-1929
Jane Platt
Jane Platt is an independent scholar specialising in church history. From 2011-
2014 she was Honorary Researcher in History at Lancaster University, UK. She
is the editor of The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814–1855 (2015).
About the book
This book introduces the reader to a subject which, until now, has been almost
totally ignored by scholars. Seeking to change the Cinderella status of parish
magazines, the book reveals their importance as a source for the studies of both
religion and mass-market publishing. Parish magazines usually contained
commercially published 'insets', making them a microcosm of the Anglican Church's
role as a conduit for national issues into the local community; yet, despite the
propagandist potential and wide circulation of such magazines, their content
offered subscribers a diet of anxiety and despair over religious and social change,
along with a laissez-faire approach to the effects of commercialism. Suffering from
a collapse of confidence and vision, and mired in its internecine wars, the Church of
England, 1859-1929, eventually proved unable to utilise the technological advances
presented by mass-market publishing to its own advantage.
CONTENTS
Contents
1. Inventing the Parish Magazine
2. Erskine Clarke and Parish Magazine
3. 'Cheap as well as good': the Economics of Publishing
4. Editors, Writers and Church Parties, 1871-1918
5. Manhood
6. 'Scribbling Women': Female Authorship of Inset Fiction
7. Readers
8. Stormy Waters: 'How can the waves the bark o'erwhelm, with Christ the Pilot
at the Helm?'
9. The Challenges of Modernity: Scientific Advances and the Great War
10. Anglican Parish Magazines 1919-1929 and Beyond