A Vicar in Victorian Norfolk: The Life and Times of Benjamin Armstrong (1817-1890)

by Susanna Wade Martins

An engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest.

The Revd Benjamin Armstrong, for many years vicar of the market town of East Dereham, Norfolk, is best-known for what have been described as one of England's greatest clerical diaries, eleven volumes spanning his whole adult life, between 1850 and 1888. This first full biography puts his story into the context of the period in which he lived: a time of turmoil in the church, with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783273305
• ISBN13: 9781783273300
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"