Anglican Church

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 original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons , particularly about a...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.