Anglican Church

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

Like her sister many years later, she replied robustly to complaint about her overtly Dissenting code of conduct. She reveals a clear sense of the disparity between standards applied to hegemonic beliefs and those applied...

The Mylnes had had charge of their brother during the years following their parents' deaths. The two Wright girls lived with them and their five children in a small college house. James Mylne was...

In late 1939, about seven weeks after the declaration of war, MBL and her husband moved out of 9 Barton Street in central London to the suburban address of 28 Crooked Billet, near Wimbledon Common...

CMT had always been deeply interested in India, where her father and many other relatives had built their careers. No less than five of the family were there at the time of the Mutiny....

At his point in her life, her close relatives having either died or grown up, CMT felt that she had no further family responsibilities and was free to devote herself to missionary work in India...

The story opens with the young Englishwoman Rhoda Ford (the unbeautiful one of two sisters) and her family in the west of Ireland, where her father has an entrepreneurial scheme. They try to come...

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

JP 's tone is darker here: she portrays Henry as a tyrant and the various power-hungry and quarrelling families (the Seymours and the Howards) as self-serving weaklings. She does not paint Katherine (as in her...

The story is of a young girl's development and close relationship with her mother. A High Anglican message is important here, as it was to be in all of ES 's work.

In 1869, the year that Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland , she exclaims, Oh, noble face marked deep with inward strife! / Oh, steadfast eyes, through which thy soul looks out! In this first...

The essay contributes, as critic Laurel Brake has argued, to a continuing debate over gender both within the progressive Westminster itself and in mid-Victorian culture more broadly. This piece has almost nothing to...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent and specifically Presbyterianism , but returns to the Church of England , saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year...

This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican position.