Anglican Church

The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by...

This inflammatory book, probably CP 's best known work, was championed by the Church of England (even though the Church disagreed with her views on votes for women). A review by Rebecca West in the...

Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM 's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...

George Hickes had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England against...

From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...

But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink (head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press ) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent...

The Athenæum's review commended EJW for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly. The reviewer affirmed that she offered sound advice in her proper sphere...

The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...

The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England 's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB explained that Honourable Estate purports to show...

Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles , but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Noel's father, William Streatfeild , had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church , in which he was...

EAD 's father, Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn , owned a spelter works, Dillwyn and Co. , in Llansamlet, a little to the north of Swansea. He later entered into a business partnership with William Siemens

A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes , GE got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross , in an Anglican ceremony at St George's...