Saint Paul

The title page quotes from Saint Paul : For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high...

AL 's title-page quotes from Saint Paul 's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on...

Driven by her husband's misappropriation of funds to the point of leaving him, and reminded by him of Saint Paul 's injunction against breaking her marriage vow, Josephine Scanlan replies, St. Paul was not a...

MDF 's title-page quotes an exhortation to meekness from St Paul 's Epistle to Timothy: if Huntington had borne this advice in mind, she says, she would not have needed to write. She takes...

She addressed it To Old Royalists, and their Posterity. To these Old Friends and Fellow-Sufferers in the Late Times, she describes the Spirit which is available equally to all Mankind, as well Women as...

Reprinting a letter sent to Huntington in April 1787 about the possibility of their meeting, MDF professes herself willing to meet him to straighten matters out between them; she says she has nothing against his...

MF approaches her topic in a scholarly rather than an impassioned manner. She is conservative in that she seeks authority for what she proposes, though her attitude to her authorities is far from submissive. Her...

As its fuller title explains, Good News to the Good Women is also addressed to the Bad Women too that will grow better, the like to the men, but here the women are put in...

MDF 's riposte, again in the form of a prose letter and longer than her other works, addresses Huntington, the father, on the grounds that the pamphlet published in the name of the daughter, Morton...

SC linked her physical and mental deterioration to problems with her reproductive organs. She expressed disgust at her body, writing in one of her letters a quotation from Saint Paul , O who will deliver...

Being middle-aged and having published advice to single women, she was afraid she might be making a mistake in getting married. The marriage, however, though brief, was extremely happy. At the wedding ceremony, John...

It was hard to persuade him to leave his current congregation, and the question of his maintenance was also in play. Stucley, meanwhile, regularly insisted that SP should attend every meeting about Church affaires and...

As to religion, LMC had a natural leaning towards piety, but disliked most of the Christian sects of which she had experience. She found the Unitarians too cold, the Swedenborgians (to whom early in her...