Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Emma Frances Brooke
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...
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
330
as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...
Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
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...
Literary responses Harriet Corp
The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by...
Literary responses Elizabeth Elstob
George Hickes had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England against...
Literary responses May Drummond
From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...
Literary responses Emma Jane Worboise
The Athenæum's review commended EJW for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2370 (1873): 406
The reviewer affirmed that she offered sound advice in her proper sphere...
Literary responses Doreen Wallace
But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink (head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press ) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent...
Literary responses Mary Renault
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...
Literary Setting Georgiana Fullerton
In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...
Material Conditions of Writing Anna Letitia Barbauld
France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...
Material Conditions of Writing Catherine Phillips
That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...
Occupation Maude Royden
At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...
Occupation Arthur Hugh Clough
After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...
Occupation Maude Royden
Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

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