Frederick W. Robertson

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Biographical Material

• Brief Biography
• Frederick W. Robertson's Family Background, Early Childhood, and Education at Oxford
• Preface to The Diary: Sex, Death, and God in the Affairs of a Victorian Cleric
• That Which Is Done Remains [Robertson's Death and the Aftermath]
• "Dutiful curate who became a sensation" (the The Revd Dr Christina Beardsley's essay in the 2003 Church Times

Sermons

• "Religious Depression"
• "The Shadow and Substance of the Sabbath"
• "The Message of the Church to Men of Wealth"
• "Baptism" [Roman Cathoic vs. Calvinist belief]
• "Baptism" [Chuch of England belief]

Robertson and Victorian Religion

• Frederick W. Robertson in the Context of Victorian Religion
• Robertson's basic beliefs — His advice to a young girl
• Frederick W. Robertson on Moral Culture, Repression, and Tractarianism
• The evidence of goodness and wisdom in the external world is very questionable": Frederick W. Robertson on Finding God amid the Cruelties of Nature
• "There is a tendency now to be very indignant about a poor man's spending Sunday afternoon in a tea-garden": Frederick W. Robertson's Opposition to Sabbatarianism

Political Themes and Contexts

• "My tastes are with the aristocrat, my principles with the mob": Robertson's Politics

Literary Relations

• Robertson on Brontë, Gaskell, and the Contemporary Novel
• William Wordsworth
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Defending Tennyson's In Memoriam
• Thomas Carlyle
• John Ruskin

Related Web Materials, including three sections from C. Beardsley's Unutterable Love

• The Preface
• The Introduction
• The Preface
• Marilyn Thomas on F. W. Robertson (You Tube)
• Marilyn Thomas on F. W. Robertson's Diary (You Tube)

References

Beardsley, Christina. Unutterable Love: The Passionate Life and Preaching of F. W. Robertson. Cambridge (UK): Lutterwork Press, 2009.

Brooke, Stopford A. Life and Letters of Fred[erick]. W. Robertson, M. A., Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53. People's Edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1902.

Robertson, Frederick W. Sermons Preached at Brighton. New edition. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, n.d. Contains all four series of of Robertson's sermons.

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