Anglican Church

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...

Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism both from HJ 's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while...

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 nieceKate...

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

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 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.

This novel explores the breach between Anglicans and Evangelicals within the Church of England .

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...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...

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...

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...

In this remarkably self-assured letter SH takes a challenging, uncompromising tone. She urges Geers to leave the mainstream (schismatic) Anglican Church , now it has vowed loyalty to William and Mary , and to enter...