Anglican Church

The date it bears, 1652, may refer to an old-style year that ended on 25 March 1653, since the pamphlet was printed in time for circulation at Aldam's trial in March 1653. It is...

EW sets out here is to defend Anglican clergymen of Presbyterian sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of...

Again a number of poets are quoted as chapter-headings; this time they include at least one woman, Anna Seward . As to plot, this novel has been categorized as a prototypical forerunner of the thriller...

This pamphlet combines a wealth of scripture reference with a fighting political, anti-Anglican message. It opens with the statement that in the past all holy men of God spoke freely and not for hire: preaching...

Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England brings to mind Mary Astell . She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer

Having grown up in London and at an English boarding school (where his interest in oriental culture was already remarked on), Watts married a wealthy American and became a highEpiscopalian priest in the USA...

The volume, dedicated to her mother and taking from James Montgomery its epigraph—A day's march nearer home—notes for each day the observances of the Anglican Church calendar, sometimes directly engaging...

This novel is long on moral exposition and extended discussions between characters over various threats to the Church of England and its flock, but its plot is weak and derivative. Walter's bright, morally upstanding niece...

She boosts the Church of England , of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II (his father...

As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe , to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination...

Avery writes with great authority, from her opening salvo: Antichrist the spirit of Errour doth reside in the flesh more than ever. She maintains that it is the will of God to call me...

EJ here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England with homage to Elizabeth , who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I , with a threatening...

Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre with one such woman...

Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic

In this work JL characterises the Established Church as slighting all the Extraordinary Stirrings of the Divine Spirit, while theologians who did not agree with her were not set quite free from the Traditions of...