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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
“We shall read today in the Book of Experience.” These words of Bernard of Clairvaux serve well as an adequate preface to the six short novels by “Mark Rutherford,” which constitute an important contribution to the intimate religious literature of the last century. For, although cast in the form of fiction, these narratives clearly belong to that comparatively small class of inevitable and significant works which are best described as “confessional.” Indeed, neither the form of the books, nor the shelter sought behind his now familiar pseudonym, served long to conceal the identity of the author, or to divert attention from the autobiographical aspects of his works.
1 Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, 1881. Mark Rutherford's Deliverance, 1881. The Ethic of Benedict Spinoza, translated by William Hale White, 1883. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane, 1887. Miriam's Schooling, 1890. Catherine Furze, 1893. Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione et de Via, Benedict Spinoza, translated by William Hale White, 1895. Clara Hopgood, 1896. A Description of the Wordsworth and Coleridge Manuscripts in the Possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman, 1897. An Examination of a Charge of Apostasy against Wordsworth, 1898. Pages from a Journal and Other Papers, 1901. John Bunyan, 1905.