Anglican Church

BB was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England services in her parish.

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

AT 's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church and of the reform movement within it.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...