Judith Maltby is Chaplain and Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Reader in Church History in the University of Oxford, UK. As well as publishing widely on the history of Anglicanism, she is an occasional commentator on religion on BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian (2004-2011).Alison Shell is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London, UK. She has published widely on the relationship of Christianity and literature in Britain between the Reformation and the 21st century.

• List of illustrationsAbbreviationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why Anglican, why Women, why Novelists? – Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK, and Alison Shell, University College London, UK1. Charlotte Brontë (1816-55): An Anglican Imagination – Sara L. Pearson, Trinity Western University, Canada2. Charlotte Maria Tucker, ‘A.L.O.E.’ (1821-93): Anglican Evangelicalism and National Identity – Nancy Jiwon Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea3. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Opening Doors of Interpretation – Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK4. Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901): Writing for the Church – Charlotte Mitchell, University College London, UK5. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941): Mysticism in Fiction – Ann Loades, St Andrews University, UK6. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957): God and the Detective – Jessica Martin, Ely Cathedral, UK7. Rose Macaulay (1881-1958): Anglican Apologist? – Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK8. Barbara Pym (1913-80): Anglican Anthropologies – Jane Williams, St Mellitus College, St Mellitus College9. Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84): Clergymen and Masculinity – Susan D. Amussen, University of California, USA10. Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986): Vicarage and other Families – Clemence Schultze, Durham University, UK11. Iris Murdoch (1919-99): Anglican Atheist – Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Divinity School, USA12. Monica Furlong (1930-2003): ‘With Love to the Church’ – Peter Sherlock, University of Divinity, Australia 13. P.D. James (1920-2014): ‘Lighten our Darkness’ – Alison Shell, University College London, UK Afterword - Francis Spufford, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

[Anglican Women Novelists] makes a genuine contribution to literary history, women's history, and the history of the Anglican church.