A Victorian Curate av David Yeandle

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<p>The Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both social connections and private means. He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin''s <em>Origin of Species</em> and other radical scientific advances. </p><p><br></p><p>Hunt attracted notoriety and conflict as well as admiration and respect: he was the subject of articles in <em>Punch</em> and in the wider press concerning his clandestine dissection of a foetus in the crypt of a City church, while his <em>Essay on Pantheism</em> was proscribed by the Roman Catholic Church. He had many skirmishes with incumbents, both evangelical and catholic, and was dismissed from several of his curacies. </p><p><br></p><p>This book analyses his career in London and St Ives (Cambs.) through the lens of his autobiogra