Anglican Church

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

MR was elected to the National Church Assembly , formed in this year to act as a kind of parliament for the Church of England , which opened its first session on 30 June.

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven...

At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...

Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

Early reviewers linked The Charioteer to the growing reform movement in Britain because of its polemical stance and the coincidental occurrence of the Gielgud trial. Even the Church of England 's official newspaper approved the...

The Critical Review gave her the last paragraph only of a review chiefly concerned with two books on related topics by male authors, one of which was Lancaster 's Improvements in Education, which the...

George Orwell no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression...

W. T. Stead 's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB 's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...