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Far and away the most useful resource for anyone interested in the theological context of the Brontes' fiction. The only text of its kind when published in 1999, Thormahlen's book has been followed by a decade of renewed (or new?) interest in the relationship between Christianity and the Brontes' fiction. Still, Thormahlen's book is the best one-stop text to refresh any Bronte reader's memory of, or more significantly,introduce for the first time, the significance Christian doctrine, church policy, theological discussion, and religious controversy played in the lives of the Bronte family (and most English homes of the 19th century) and how the Brontes' fiction critiques, converses with and commends the spiritual concerns of the Church of England ca. 1815-1850. Thormahlen's book goes a long way to recalibrating what has been some sixty years of misreading the religious content of the Brontes' fiction that saw their criticism of religous hypocrisy as rejection of Christianity.