Brake, Laurel. Print in Transition. Palgrave.
89, passim
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Textual Features | Monica Furlong | 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... |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | 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... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican
position. |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Textual Features | George Eliot | 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. Brake, Laurel. Print in Transition. Palgrave. 89, passim |
Textual Features | Frances Trollope | 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... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Underhill | 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... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This work (fuller title Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, In An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled, A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty) summarises and defends her career so... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell
, who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England
angel in... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | 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. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
Residence | Marie Belloc Lowndes | 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... |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | 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.... |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | 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... |
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