If you’re anything like me, and fascinated with the trials and tribulations of Victorian clergy and parish life, or just enjoy disappearing into the world of Victorian realism, then here’s a little bibliography that may be of interest. I shall be reading through this list over the next year, and writing some reviews and spoilers on my blog.
BOOKS ABOUT VICTORIAN CLERGY AND PARISH LIFE
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) – Oliver Goldsmith
The Curate of Elmwood (1795) – Anthony Pasquin
The Country Curate (1830) – G.R. Gleig
The Vicar of Wrexhill (1837) – Frances Trollope
Milford Malvoisin, or Pews and Pewholders (1842) – Francis Edward Paget
The Warden of Berkingholt, or Rich and Poor (1843) – Francis Edward Paget
The Parish Rescued (1845) – W. F. Wilkinson
My Uncle the Curate (1849) – Marmion Savage
The Rector of St. Bardolph’s, or Superannuated (1852) – F. W. Shelton
The Warden (1855) – Anthony Trollope
The Village Curate: an Interesting Tale (1855) – Joseph Crawhall (Chapbook)
The old Grey Church (1856) – Caroline Lucy Scott
The Curate of the Holy Cross (1857) – Ernest Richard Seymour
Philip Paternoster (1858) – Charles Maurice Davies
The Curate and the Vicar (1859) – Elizabeth Strutt (American)
The Curate of Cumberworth and The Vicar of Roost (1859) – Francis Edward Paget
The Rector (1863) – Margaret Oliphant
The Perpetual Curate (1864) – Margaret Oliphant
The Curate’s Friend – A Story (1867) – Mrs. J. C. Wilson
The Vicars Courtship (1869) – George Walter Thornbury
The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870) – Anthony Trollope
The Rector of St. Marks (1874) – Mary Jane Holmes (American)
The Curate in Charge (1876) – Margaret Oliphant
Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876) – George Macdonald
The Care of Souls (1879) – J.M. Cobban
Philip Hazelbrook, or the Juniour Curate (1887) – Henry Faulkner Darnell
Robert Elsmere (1888) – Mary Augusta Ward
The Vicar of Berrybridge (1889) – Charles R. Parsons
The Curates Home (1889) – Agnes Giberne
The New Rector (1891) – Stanley J. Weyman
The Little Minister (1891) – James Barrie
The Mystery of the Rat-Tailed Grey, or the Curate in Charge (1891) – WJ Hodgson
My New Curate (1899) – Patrick Augustine Sheehan
An Obstinate Parish (1899) – M. L. Lord
The Cathedral (1922) – Hugh Walpole
