Anglican Church

Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM 's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...

George Orwell no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression...

W. T. Stead 's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB 's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...

Early reviewers linked The Charioteer to the growing reform movement in Britain because of its polemical stance and the coincidental occurrence of the Gielgud trial. Even the Church of England 's official newspaper approved the...

The Athenæum's review commended EJW for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly. The reviewer affirmed that she offered sound advice in her proper sphere...

The Critical Review gave her the last paragraph only of a review chiefly concerned with two books on related topics by male authors, one of which was Lancaster 's Improvements in Education, which the...

The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England 's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB explained that Honourable Estate purports to show...

The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...

Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles , but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...

Her father's name was Andrew William Beer, though her mother called him John. He had been married before, and had been an Anglican before accepting the more rigorous faith of his second wife's family...

Her husband's family was long-established at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, but his marriage and his position with the Church of Ireland seem to have developed in him an Anglo-Irish consciousness. Anna sometimes...