Puritans

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...

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

EW published The Old and Good Way Vindicated, a pamphlet defending established Puritan practice against the innovations of radicals.

EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .

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

Jordan, a young man dragged from the mud of the River Thames as a baby, sails off to seek his fortune with a botanist who brings rare plants back to England. He falls in love...

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...

CT has some fun with her persona as a day of the week. Her letter develops as a riddle with clues such as: The laborious poor every where blest my appearance: they do so still...