TY - JOUR AU - Lee, Holcombe AB - 514 Reviews of Books when I made a crude effort in the field forty years ago Pickering is not a professional historian but an or- or, I suspect, than most readers of more recent work dained Anglican cleric who served for twenty years as a would have thought. An overall gain over the century member of the sociology faculty of the University of was shot through with exceptions and reversals and Newcastle-on-Tyne and who has written extensively on surprises, depending on factors such as the urban-rural religious themes as well as on Emile Durkheim. His distinction, the extent of immigration, the nature of the approach differs from that of the typical historian less local economy, and the relative strength of Dissent and in the sources on which he relies than in the way that he the Established Church. tells his story, namely, in an almost entirely topical A sweeping view over northern and eastern England, manner with chapter headings such as "A Missionary where the picture was relatively favorable, is followed Movement?" "The Extent of Success," "The Ambiguity by more detailed studies of the less favored counties in of Catholic Sectarianism," and "Ambiguity over Sexu- the northern and southern TI - mary lyndon shanley. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850–1895. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1989. Pp. x, 213. $25.00 JO - The American Historical Review DO - 10.1086/ahr/96.2.514-a DA - 1991-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/mary-lyndon-shanley-feminism-marriage-and-the-law-in-victorian-england-FNN4z1Veci SP - 514 EP - 515 VL - 96 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -