Puritans

DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.

AL was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin...

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...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans

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...

She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith. She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .

Living as a wife in her father-in-law's house at Leighs inEssex, Mary Rich was affected by its Puritan ethos. By 1646 she was seeking a new and better life.

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...

JM was an Englishman who admired Italy and a strong Protestant (often described as a Puritan ) who held various heretical views in theology.

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.

In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...

KP came on both sides from middle-class Puritan English families. Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist. Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

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...

A historical novel set in colonial Massachusetts during the years 1675–78, the time of King Philip's war between the natives and settlers in New England, Hope Leslie focuses on a young arrival from England and...