Saint Paul

Although it says Not oft use I to wryght / In prose nor yet in ryme, it is passionately confident in tone. The stanza about the bloody force which has usurped the throne of...

Naomi, who has the same energy, strength of faith, and nobility of character as her father, struggles for much of the novel against the limitations on female employment. Early on she asks herself What use...

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...

She resisted still more firmly the conventions around opening and closing letters, having a detestation of lyeing epithets of humble servants and stuff, and dear Sir and nonsense. Pliny and Cicero and Paul never begun...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Elizabeth Morton 's pamphlet, which MDF is answering here, had appeared the same year as The Daughter's Defence of Her Father; or, An Answer to the Letter Addressed to Mr. Huntington, which was addressed...

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...

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...

Lady Bridgewater returns in several essays—Considerations concerning Marriage, Of Marriage and Widdowes, and others—to the institution that shaped her life. She accepts a wife's duty of obedience (since God, who is beyond...

With her friend Sarah Chevers , KE left her husband and children to travel to the East as a Quaker missionary; the two women were following in the footsteps of Saint Paul by heading for...

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...