| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall. By Joanna Dean. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xii, 322 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34814-5.)
A popular 1886 work, Edwin Abbott's The Kernel and the Husk, offered restless Christians an image that legitimated escape as spiritual development: a new generation might strip away the "dry husk of orthodoxy" and uncover a still-viable kernel of life within. That image aptly characterizes the emergent theology of Lily Dougall (1858–1923), a lay theologian and novelist whose life provides a case study of the struggles of Christian feminists who came of age during the crosscurrents of late Victorian doubt and new waves of American evangelical fervor.	1
Dougall grew up in Montreal under the constraining eye of a father whose oppressive zeal she caricatured in an early novel, Lovereen. The theological arguments in that novel emerged in others, and eventually in essays, which were published first under a male pseudonym and later under her own name. Dougall's movement from fiction to nonfiction parallels her gradual entry into the academic and ecclesial debates of Anglican modernism. By the end of her intellectually vigorous life, her home had become a center for study and discussion of religious experience, its relationship to psychology and psychic phenomena, and biblical interpretation.	. . .

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