Saint Paul

It is also a study in generations of women's experience. Aunt Dot has the energy and confidence of Victorian or suffrage campaigners. She loves working for the advancement of women; she loves distant places and...

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...

FAK published another novel, A Little Lower than the Angels (a title, used by several other authors, from the place of humanity in God's plan, according to Saint Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews).

LH draws on a wide range of sources to buttress her argument. These include the results of her reading—Milton , and the story of the Greek Atalanta (whose male inventors, she says, were not...

LH argues that the division of Christianity into sects is a greate sinne. She notes Saint Paul 's opinion of women's weakness. While admitting that judgement in the most knowing weomen is inferior to...

BH published another virtue novel, Patience, with a title-page quotation from Saint Paul .

Again the title-page quotes Saint Paul . The heroine, one of three daughters of a clergyman, personifies the virtue of the title even at the end, in happy love. The eldest sister, meanwhile, behaves like...

After this reminder of mutability, the narrative comes to focus on St Paul and his early preaching in Greece after the death of Christ. The narrative details the effect which he has upon Dionysius, a...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

The dustjacket features Hildegarde of Bingen . A quotation from St Paul which Furlong had used before (Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak...

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...

Having been weighing the matter before the Lord, she wrote: I believe I am called to do all I can for God. This included helping at prayer meetings, at the invitation of a brother or...

John Wesley responded by invoking what has later been called exceptionalism. He agreed that Mary Bosanquet had an Extraordinary Call, such as Saint Paul himself had recognised when he permitted women to speak at Corinth...

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...

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...