Saint Paul

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...

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...

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...

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...

She recommends Barrie as a model for aspiring writers and, with an echo of St Paul , praises his avoidance of vulgar sensationalism: To his honour be it spoken, his stock-in-trade has been of the...

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...

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...

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...

In this decade, when informers were rife and, says ES , killing a Quaker was to many people no worse than killing a louse, she fell foul of John Story , one of her...

OM contributed an article to The Times supporting women's ordination in the Christian ministry, titled "The Thirteenth Apostle [that is St Paul ] Has a Great Deal to Answer For.

Her message here is one of submission to established rulers and avoidance of sedition. She takes as her text to preach on a quotation from St Paul's first epistle to Peter, beginning with a...

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...

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...

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...

This work is prefaced by testimonies including one by Theophila Townsend . Her account of her ministry tells of physical suffering andurance: as JV wrote not long before she died, how many hundred Miles have...