Puritans

Though no longer subject to persecution, AL found herself still a dissenter from the established form of Christianity: in Patrick Collinson 's words, the very first documented protestant separatist from the Elizabethan church. Collinson also...

At the time of their wedding (held in the Court milieu of Greenwich), Sir Robert had no children surviving from the total of ten born during his first two marriages. Friends thought he had...

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

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 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...

JP , or Carr, does not trace the same families throughout her sequence, though often a particular family binds together several novels. Saraband for Two Sisters (1976) sets identical twin sisters amid the religious strife...

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...

Some years after Elizabeth came to the throne, AB entertained the queen at Gorhambury. She was also an active patron of young Puritan clergymen and a protector of those whose radical beliefs made them suspect...

EW , active at the mid seventeenth century, is a learned writer who fills her three Puritan theological pamphlets with strongly structured argument and with Latin notes and references in the margins. Her polemic has...

The title-page this time shows the royal arms. This undated edition is associated by Rebecca Laroche with the Hampton Court Conference of Anglican bishops at which James I pronounced No Bishop, no King (though...

AB 's family moved again, from Sempringham in Lincolnshire to Boston in the same county, a centre of Puritan activity.

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...

She worked hard at the research for this book, which she dedicated to John Addington Symonds . She found her pen could not glide through it as with everyday tales. She worried about...

Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans, the third novel by Margaret Wilson (later MO ), was published as by the author of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland.

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