Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anne Bradstreet | |
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... |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | JB
's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch
and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Maria Child | The idea came to her from reading a call by John Gorham Palfrey
for fiction to be made from early American, Puritan
history, and it was inspired by Yamoyden, 1820, a verse narrative of... |
Literary Setting | Lydia Maria Child | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Anne Clifford | LAC
says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell
, daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English, Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club, 1916. 19 |
Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols. 1: 1 |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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... |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
Cultural formation | Fanny Fern | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | 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 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Hoby | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
's mother, born Lucy St John, came from a family with a strong Puritan
tradition, and was the third wife of her husband. Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973. 285 Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 22-4. 22 |
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