Anglican Church

Tom, who felt the call to the ministry as a captain in the Merchant Navy , and is husband to the protagonist, Mary Barry, is unquestioningly, effortlessly good and generous. (He performs miracles preserving the...

Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle...

For the wife of an Anglican clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross [her husband] was overwhelming.

JP 's tone is darker here: she portrays Henry as a tyrant and the various power-hungry and quarrelling families (the Seymours and the Howards) as self-serving weaklings. She does not paint Katherine (as in her...

The story is of a young girl's development and close relationship with her mother. A High Anglican message is important here, as it was to be in all of ES 's work.

In 1869, the year that Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland , she exclaims, Oh, noble face marked deep with inward strife! / Oh, steadfast eyes, through which thy soul looks out! In this first...

The story opens with the young Englishwoman Rhoda Ford (the unbeautiful one of two sisters) and her family in the west of Ireland, where her father has an entrepreneurial scheme. They try to come...

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

FT was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England , so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she...

Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be...

The essay contributes, as critic Laurel Brake has argued, to a continuing debate over gender both within the progressive Westminster itself and in mid-Victorian culture more broadly. This piece has almost nothing to...

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...

CMT had always been deeply interested in India, where her father and many other relatives had built their careers. No less than five of the family were there at the time of the Mutiny....

At his point in her life, her close relatives having either died or grown up, CMT felt that she had no further family responsibilities and was free to devote herself to missionary work in India...

In late 1939, about seven weeks after the declaration of war, MBL and her husband moved out of 9 Barton Street in central London to the suburban address of 28 Crooked Billet, near Wimbledon Common...