Italian Jobs: Two Nineteenth-Century ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Clergy in Italy
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(2024): 22
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In common with their well-heeled contemporaries, many 19th-century English clergy took advantage of more settled political conditions and improved methods of transport to travel to Italy, both with an eye for classical tourism and for health reasons to escape the more deleterious effects of a British winter. They did not always have a good press. A clergy correspondent writing to the Bishop of London in 1847 opined that ‘men driven from England in debt or in disgrace are encouraged to seek, and actually do find employment as ministers of English congregations abroad’.
Frontispiece portrait of Walter Augustus Shirley
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