Puritans

The book is titled from its self-effacing Native American hero, who marries the heroine, Mary Conant, when her fiancé Charles Brown is believed lost at sea. When Charles returns as if from the grave, Hobomok...

LAC says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell , daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English, the only language she knew. She was a devout...

The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell 's usurpation, among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford

Its heroine bears the unusual name of Silence—pronounced in the French, not the English manner, since she has grown up in the Swiss Alps and lived there all her life, teaching music for a living...

JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.

The story is set among the Puritans under Oliver Cromwell , and many of the characters bear names that convey the earnest desire of their parents that they should grow up to be rigidly virtuous.

FF was presumably white, and descended from Puritan colonists who first settled in Boston,Massachusetts, in 1630. Her father, Nathaniel Willis , was deeply, and strictly, religious. Sara, however, always resisted his form of Calvinism...

It details the way cultural difference proves fatal when an orphaned young Englishwoman is transplanted to the home of unsympathetic Puritan relatives in New England. She ends up being burned alongside a native woman during...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

Brought up in a family that was strongly Puritan , MH continued her piety throughout her life. She attended church every day (putting her public religious duty ahead even of her extensive private observances), engaged...

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

LH 's mother, born Lucy St John, came from a family with a strong Puritan tradition, and was the third wife of her husband. She learned medical knowledge and skills from Sir Walter Ralegh

In The Decline of Merry EnglandSJ produced a strange little book, variously called a critical history of Puritanism and of the English Civil War.

He was born of a mixed marriage, having a monarchist, cavalier father and a parliamentarian, Puritan mother. Young John was ten when he succeeded to the earldom bestowed on his father for selfless and dangerous...

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .