The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival

Against the backdrop of a widespread religious revival, the narrative follows a literary father and his inventive daughter as they move between Grub Street, the theatre, and fashionable society. The daughter becomes involved with an aristocratic suitor and a worldly acquaintance, and tensions between ambition, reputation, and genuine feeling shape courtship and artistic collaboration. Revivalist fervour forces several characters to face conscience, illness, and mortality, producing reckonings that test loyalties and prompt conversions or refusals. Threads of love, pride, sacrifice, and spiritual awakening interweave, leading to deaths, reconciliations, and moral resolutions that examine the cost of embracing faith or remaining unchanged in belief.