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

She boosts the Church of England , of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II (his father...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

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...

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...

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 .

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 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...

As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...

Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic

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

In this work JL characterises the Established Church as slighting all the Extraordinary Stirrings of the Divine Spirit, while theologians who did not agree with her were not set quite free from the Traditions of...

EJ here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England with homage to Elizabeth , who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I , with a threatening...

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...