Lays Of Lowly Service And Other Verses

Excerpt from Lays of Lowly Service: And Other Verses Some of the verses collected in this volume may perhaps be already familiar to the reader. They are now, with additions, gathered to gether and sent forth in the hope that He who has in the past deigned to comfort and help some of His little ones through their in strumentality, may further use them for His glory, as He often does the weak things of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In this study, Gray examines the broadly neglected body of Victorian women's religious verse, showing how women of the period used an array of inventive literary strategies to construct and wield provocative forms of authority. Their deployment of biblical source, trope and genre transfigured Christian and lyric traditions.