Anglican Church

FT was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England , so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she...

Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle...

Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be...

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...

It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of England . CT uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions.

Despite its sensational plot and purple prose, MEB 's first attempt at infusing a touch of poetry and the subjective into her writing through character painting does result in greater character development than in...

DW writes as from the field of battle, reporting developments which are still ongoing. She exhibits shrewd and informed understanding of farm economics and church economics. She convincingly depicts both the law and the Church...

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...

In The Fatal Three the mostly loveless childhood of Mildred, the daughter of a frivolous society woman, is brightened only by the brief sojourn in her household of a woman presumed to be her illegitimate...

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...

Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to...

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

Tom, who felt the call to the ministry as a captain in the Merchant Navy , and is husband to the protagonist, Mary Barry, is unquestioningly, effortlessly good and generous. (He performs miracles preserving the...

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...

JP issued her first two crime novels under her new pseudonym, Elbur Ford: Poison in Pimlico and Flesh and the Devil.