Anglican Church

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett

This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events...

In these polemical speeches, MR not only argues for women's suffrage, but also specifically calls on the Church of England to help women win the vote. She begins by posing the question, is women's suffrage...

AA , it appears, was willing to enforce her condemnation of fashionable society to the bitter end, and to add to it an informed critique of current trends in the Anglican Church .

She described it as a vision of a Church of England recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. The eponymous protagonist passionately and eloquently defends...

This novel explores the breach between Anglicans and Evangelicals within the Church of England .

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism both from HJ 's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while...

This was written in answer to a specific sermon by Smallwood , in which he defended the swearing of formal oaths. MF saw him as a misleader of others, an actual Antichrist, and seized the...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

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...

She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...

She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII , which established the Church of England (Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox in 1559, which established the...