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Characters | Sybille Bedford | In the earliest generation a puritan
New England woman marries an Italian prince who turns out to be a philanderer. Their daughter is restless and unsettled, with an active sex-life which her mother cannot bring... |
Characters | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | 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. |
Characters | Sybille Bedford | The protagonist, whose mother was a female rake and whose grandmother was a Yankee puritan
, has become a successful writer and reached the age of fifty, but she is still troubled with guilt over... |
Characters | Aphra Behn | This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan
clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates
and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all... |
Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn. 1: 1 |
Characters | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
Cultural formation | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan
, more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian
in religion. Eales and others have applied to her... |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Katherine Philips | KP
came on both sides from middle-class Puritan
English families. Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-68. 1-2 Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-68. 5 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Hoby | |
Cultural formation | Anne Bradstreet | |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | 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... |
Cultural formation | Anne Bradstreet | |
Cultural formation | John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester | 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... |
Cultural formation | Cicely Bulstrode | Her family belonged to the English gentry class. She seems to have favoured the reformed religion, that is puritanism
. At this distance of time there is no prospect of determining whether the promiscuity attributed... |
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