Subscribing to Faith?

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1 Subscribing to Faith?

2 Histories of the Sacred and the Secular General Editor: Professor David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Editorial Board: Professor Callum Brown (Dundee University, UK) Professor William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Dr Carole Cusack (Sydney University, Australia) Professor Beverley Clack (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Dr Bert Gasenbeek (Humanist University, Utrecht, Netherlands) Professor Paul Harvey (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, US) This series reflects the awakened and expanding profile of the history of religion within the academy in recent years. It intends publishing exciting new and high quality work on the history of religion and belief since 1700 and will encourage the production of interdisciplinary proposals and the use of innovative methodologies. The series will also welcome book proposals on the history of Atheism, Secularism, Humanism and unbelief/secularity and encourage research agendas in this area alongside those in religious belief. The series will be happy to reflect the work of new scholars entering the field as well as the work of established scholars. The series welcomes proposals covering subjects in Britain, Europe, the United States and Oceana. Titles include: John Wolffe ( editor ) IRISH RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Catholics, Protestants and Muslims Clive D. Field BRITAIN S LAST RELIGIOUS REVIVAL? Quantifying Belonging, Behaving and Believing in the Long 1950s Jane Platt SUBSCRIBING TO FAITH? The Anglican Parish Magazine Histories of the Sacred and the Secular Series Standing Order ISBN (Hardback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England.

3 Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine Jane Platt Independent Scholar Palgrave macmillan

4 Jane Platt 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Platt, Jane, 1948 Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine / Jane Platt, Independent Scholar. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Church of England History. 2. Anglican communion History. 3. Great Britain Church history. 4. Church of England Periodicals History. 5. Anglican communion Periodicals History. I. Title. BX5101.P dc

5 In memory of Susan (Bone) Taylor

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7 Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations viii x xi Introduction 1 1 Inventing the Parish Magazine 15 2 Erskine Clarke and Parish Magazine 26 3 Cheap as well as Good : The Economics of Publishing 38 4 Editors, Writers and Church Parties, Manly Men and Chivalrous Heroes 71 6 Scribbling Women : Female Authorship of Inset Fiction 92 7 Parish Magazine Readers Stormy Waters: How Can the Waves the Bark O erwhelm, With Christ the Pilot at the Helm? The Challenges of Modernity: Scientific Advances and the Great War Anglican Parish Magazines and Beyond 178 Conclusion 195 Notes 200 Bibliography 245 Index 261 vii

8 List of Figures Frontispiece Books are better than Beer, Sir : The Church Monthly (1900) 68 xii 2.1 Title Page: Parish Magazine (January 1859) A Good Servant : Parish Magazine (March 1874) Title Page: The Dawn of Day (December 1896) Anglican Insets in London (Metropolitan Archives) and Carlisle and Oxford Dioceses ( ) Known Anglican Inset Titles ( ) Dawn of Day Monthly Circulation Figures taken from 10 SPCK annual reports ( ) The Sign Monthly Circulation Figures ( ) by permission of the Principal and Chapter of Pusey House, Oxford Popular Anglican Insets aggregated over five-year periods, from total number of Insets in Carlisle, Oxford and the Metropolitan Archives ( ) The three major Anglican Inset titles in all three localities ( ) Popular Anglican Insets in Oxford Diocese ( ) Popular Anglican Insets in Carlisle Diocese ( ) Popular Anglican Insets in the Metropolitan Archives ( ) Saint Andrew, Headington, Parish Magazine Accounts (1880) Dawn of Day Unit Prices (1878, 1886, 1888) The Fashion in Woollens : Penrith Deanery Magazine (August 1910) Saint Augustine Haggerston Magazine Sales ( ) Reverend Odom: Home Words (1884) The Sign : Masthead (1905) The First Home Words : Home Words (1906) Jesus, the Door : Home Words (1907) Frontispiece He was evidently excited. H. C. Adams, Leslie Rice s First Curacy : The Church Monthly (December 1889) 79 viii

9 List of Figures ix 5.4 Blessed are the Peacemakers : The Church Monthly (1906) Frontispiece: Home Words (1906) Betty of the Rectory : The Church Monthly (1907) Geoffrey Returned the Bottle to Its Place : The Church Monthly (1907) Frontispiece: The Church Monthly (1900) Frontispiece: Home Words (1883) My Churchwarden : Home Words (1907) Life s Sunrise: Christ at the Helm, Free Gift with Bound Copy: Home Words (1914) Pilots and Guides : The Church Monthly (1905) Open an Account with Her Majesty : Home Words (1885) My Hobby is Working Men : Home Words (1907) Armaments on Tyneside : The Church Monthly (1905) Anglican Insets in Carlisle, London and Oxford ( ) Popular Anglican Insets in Carlisle, London and Oxford ( ) Popular Anglican Insets in Carlisle Diocese ( ) 182

10 Acknowledgements Many people have contributed their expertise, guidance and help while this book has been in the making. I owe my first and greatest thanks to Dr Thomas Dixon of Queen Mary, London, and Dr James Taylor of Lancaster University, both of whom guided me through my research. I owe them more gratitude than can easily be expressed here. My thanks are also extended to Professor Arthur Burns of King s, London, and Dr Jonathan Topham of Leeds University, for their helpful advice; the committee of the Friends of Cumbria Archives, who awarded me a research grant; Canon Graham Fuller, who kindly allowed me to quote from his unfinished manuscript on Erskine Clarke; Chester Forster, who offered valuable suggestions and photographed the book s images; and Canon Dr David Weston of Carlisle Cathedral Library, whose kindly interest in the project helped propel it from an initial idea into book form. I should also like to record my gratitude to series editor Professor David Nash, of Oxford Brookes University, and Jenny McCall, commissioning editor at Palgrave Macmillan, for welcoming my project with such warmth; and the archivists who helped me in the course of my research, particularly Mark Arnold and Philippa Smith of London Metropolitan Archives and Tom Robson of Cumbria Archives, Carlisle. There are many others whose help has been invaluable, particularly Dr June Barnes, Lynda Collin, Jade Moulds, Gordon Neil, Ghislaine O Neill, Denis Perriam, the Venerable Dr Richard Pratt and Professor Angus Winchester. I should also thank Robert and Susan Huggard for allowing access to the private papers of Mrs Huggard s great-aunt, Austin Clare; Dan Fishman, for sharing his knowledge of the life of Queenie Scott-Hopper; and William Bullock, who offered insights into the editorship and production of Home Words. I am most grateful for the support of my husband, Richard Platt, and my daughter, Professor Verity Platt, both of whom commented on the manuscript, and I would like to thank them and all my family for goodnaturedly putting up with my curious obsession with the hundreds of parish magazines threatening to take over our home. Finally, I wish to record my deepest and warmest gratitude to my daughter, Belinda, without whose timely intervention, this book could not have been written. x

11 List of Abbreviations BL CACB CACC CACK CACW CCL CCR The Church Standard CMS CUL DofD HW LMA LSE LUL ODNB OHC PHL PM RTS SDF SDUK SN SPCK TCM VPR British Library Cumbria Archives Centre Barrow Cumbria Archives Centre Carlisle Cumbria Archives Centre Kendal Cumbria Archives Centre Whitehaven Carlisle Cathedral Library Church Congress Report The Church Standard and Evangelist Monthly Church Missionary Society Cambridge University Library The Dawn of Day Home Words for Heart and Hearth London Metropolitan Archives London School of Economics Lancaster University Library Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxfordshire History Centre Pusey House Library (Oxford) Parish Magazine Religious Tract Society Social Democratic Federation Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Stoke Newington Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge The Church Monthly Victorian Periodicals Review xi

12 Books are better than Beer, Sir : The Church Monthly (1900) 68