Robert Elsmere (Summarized Edition)

Robert Elsmere charts a young Anglican clergyman's passage from orthodox belief to an ethical, theistic creed shaped by historical criticism and social work. From a Lakeland marriage to the devout Catherine to Oxford salons and London's East End, Ward stages exacting debates on miracles, scripture, and science. Her disciplined realism—dialogue-heavy, psychologically acute, and topographically prec...