Mark Lidderdale grows up in his father’s East End mission, loses his parents, and is sent to Cornwall and then to country parishes and a ritualist religious community. The novel follows his religious education and his pull toward the priesthood amid the quarrels of late Victorian Anglo-Catholicism, from Lima Street to Wych-on-the-Wold.
A close, affectionate portrait of the Church of England’s high-church world, first of a sequence continued in The Parson’s Progress. Download the free EPUB.