Anglican women novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James: edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell, London, Bloomsbury, 2019, 288 pp., £90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-567-66585-0, 296 pp., £28.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-567-68676-3 It allowed for a remarkable flexibility in approach whereby a novelist like Charlotte Brontë could argue for the radical reform of a venerable institution at the heart of English society while remaining firmly committed to her spiritual life within the Church of England. This is a fascinating and timely collection of essays on the critically neglected relationship between some of our most perceptive women writers and the Church of England. [Extracted from the article]