Victorian literature

Religion
The King James Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer impacted the majority of nineteenth-century writers.
Direct references to the Book of Common Prayer and this Bible are common in Victorian fiction. Churches were established in the new industrial cities, with a large populace attending regularly. The Bible's language and the rhymes chanted in church sermons every week were referenced in the fictions. In villages, towns, and old cities, churches remained focal points of communal life. Furthermore, even non-Christians or non-believers in Christianity attempted to adopt Christian moral and ethical principles. Every street was dotted with churches. In terms of numbers and connections, the government-supported 'Church of England' was the dominant church during the Victorian era. There was a lot of discontent with the relatively formal Anglican Church in the eighteenth century. With their combined chapels or nonconformist churches, new religious movements such as the Methodist and Baptist were also growing. During the English Civil War, Congregationalist churches arose from the Dissenting or Nonconformist congregations that broke away from the Church of England. People wanted a more direct religious method of worship without priests and rituals, therefore these new groups arose. The Methodists and Baptists were mostly from the poorer classes. People were referred to as 'church' (Anglican) or 'chapel' (Nonconformist) goers, indicating a social distinction. Inside this Church of England, evangelicalism grew to be a significant movement. Many Anglican Church members were concerned about the ideas of the Dissenting Churches. The Anglican Church initiated an Evangelical Movement in the early nineteenth century, influenced by the Methodist movement known as 'Low Church Anglicanism.' Evangelicals, on the other hand, felt that human beings are deeply damaged by sin and so unable to achieve a strong relationship with God by their own efforts, no matter how hard they tried. Individual piety was encouraged by Christianity. Missionaries were dispatched to various nations to propagate Christianity by establishing a number of organizations to help the natives. They campaigned to abolish slavery. The country's political and religious leaders were largely Oxford and Cambridge educated Anglicans. However, because the two great universities in England in the nineteenth century were forts of die-hard Anglicanism, Evangelicalism was never able to enter them. Anglican preacher John Keble disseminated a set of tracts, booklets espousing a point of view called 'Tracts for the Times' at Oxford in 1833. He desired the ceremonies in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer to be followed more strictly.
These tracts advocated for a more conservative Church of England, similar to the Roman Catholic Church . Proponents of this prayer style claimed that it meant returning to the time before the Renaissance.