Robert Elsmere

<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/16619.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Robert Elsmere</u><br><span>Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventual marriage to Catherine Leyburn. After a period as a country vicar, Robert’s meetings with the local squire, an intellectual atheist, lead to his having a crisis of faith. The pair move to London where Robert works with the poor and uneducated. The lives of the people closely associated with the pair are also covered.<br/><br/>The book is set against the late Victorian world and its reactions to Darwinism, Unitarianism and the rise of secularism and modernism. At the time, it was a runaway best seller and its attack on orthodox Christianity was fiercely debated by all, including Gladstone.</span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />