Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises.
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Author summary | Elinor James | EJ
was a publisher and political writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as well as a tireless admonisher of monarchs and fervent supporter of the Church of England
. Her tone has... |
Author summary | Maude Royden | Maude Royden
, famous as an early twentieth-century campaigner for women's status in the ministry of the Church of England
, was also a preacher, suffragist, feminist, and anti-war activist. She published at least fifty... |
Author summary | Harriett Mozley | HM
's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England
to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman
, largely contributed. She... |
Author summary | Susanna Hopton | SH
's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic
sources to make them usable by... |
Author summary | Monica Furlong | MF
was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected... |
Author summary | Christina Rossetti | CR
wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Bury | EB
was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican
, which after the Restoration became Dissenting
) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and... |
politics | Elisabeth Wast | Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 137 |
politics | Rachel Speght | Helen Speight reads RS
's actions, in petitioning the government for support for herself and her children when her husband lost his income, in apparently leading a campaign fo harassment against the godly government appointee... |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
first became acurely aware of the burden of tithe-paying on farmers shortly after the birth of her first child. She felt the injustice of this tax, levied on the land but not on other... |
politics | Dorothy White | |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
went on to join a London rally in June 1936 against the bill which became the Tithe Act (which arranged for the tithe income of the Church of England
to be otherwise supplied, and... |
politics | Cecil Frances Alexander | From 1867-1869, CFA
and her husband
resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xiii Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xiv |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary
, Margaret Fell
, and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England
for doctrinal reasons and in... |
politics | Mary Mollineux | MM
, at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford
and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the... |
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