Examining local CEWA (Church of England Women's Association) minutes, tombstone inscriptions and other historical material and interviewing twenty-one women from the area, Morgan presents an extremely detailed analysis of the work and faith of twentieth-century Anglican women in five churches around Conception Bay, Newfoundland. This study adds to the growing body of scholarly monographs related to women and religion in Canada, and while much of it, such as certain foods, is Newfoundland-specific, the women's work she describes could easily apply to women's organisations in other denominations throughout the country at that time. I particularly enjoyed her chapters on the analysis of the inscriptions on local tombstones (she notes a pattern to gravestone markers, whether they were words selected by women to honour someone else, or words selected for women who had passed away); and what she terms ‘apron Christianity’, the women's many hours spent sewing, knitting and embroidering textile items for sale to raise funds for the local church. As happened in other fields, Morgan illustrates how CEWA women were feisty enough in the early twentieth century to resist some male ecclesiastical requests, but as the century progressed, the women became more compliant and accepting of patriarchy in their local church. She illustrates this through the women's refusal to develop a local cookbook in the early years as other organisations had done, but espousing the project whole-heartedly later in the century. One should note, however, that women still had, at that time, no major ecclesiastical leadership roles in the local churches. There is no separate bibliography in the book; I felt it could have been interesting, although one can find works consulted in the footnotes.