Anglican Church

Like her sister many years later, she replied robustly to complaint about her overtly Dissenting code of conduct. She reveals a clear sense of the disparity between standards applied to hegemonic beliefs and those applied...

The original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons , particularly about a...

This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR 's Anglicanism , and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary

The Mylnes had had charge of their brother during the years following their parents' deaths. The two Wright girls lived with them and their five children in a small college house. James Mylne was...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...