Religion, Gender, and Industry BOOKS > Fiction > Suspense Through engaging stories and touching

Through engaging stories and touching anecdotes

Sweet and Viola begin before time

as a bishop and chair of three key independent panels

While sin has corrupted our bodies and how we think of them

Religion, Gender, and Industry BOOKS > Fiction > Suspense Through engaging stories and touchingQuestions have been raised in recent decades about the place of women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in church and society during a time of vast industrial change. These topics are broad, but can be seen in microcosm in one small area of the English Midlands: the parish of Madeley, Shropshire, in which Coalbrookdale became synonymous with the industrial age. Here, the evangelical Methodist clergyman John Fletcher (17291785) ministered