Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert, 1647.
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Textual Production | Monica Furlong | MF
published through the SPCK
a historical, doctrinal, political, and analytical study of the Church of England
(the established church of most of the UK), which she titled by the church's colloquial name: C of... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
responded to published comment on James II
's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England. The English Short Title Catalogue records two versions of this, only one of... |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon
to Coventry Patmore
, she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
's writings about religious doctrine and practice include the historical and scholarly. The Times Literary Supplement warmly praised her most valuable essay in The Meaning of the Groups, edited by F. A. M. Spencer |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Avery | Avery writes with great authority, from her opening salvo: Antichrist the spirit of Errour doth reside in the flesh more than ever. Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert, 1647. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Fisher | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Lead | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946. 149 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | She described it as a vision of a Church of England
recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 352 |
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'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... |
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