Through light-hearted irony, the poem eulogises human progress. Edmund Bonner
, Bishop of London under Queen Mary
, had been an ardent burner of Protestant heretics. In the poem his ghost laments the Reformation of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Charlotte Yonge
Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England
brings to mind Mary Astell
. She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer
Wealth and Poverty
Barbara Blaugdone
BB
was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England
services in her parish.
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