Anglican Church

The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth , Cardinal Wolsey , an anonymous monk, and the...

PA celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne for completing Queen Elizabeth 's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England . She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd...

Through light-hearted irony, the poem eulogises human progress. Edmund Bonner , Bishop of London under Queen Mary , had been an ardent burner of Protestant heretics. In the poem his ghost laments the Reformation 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...

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...

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...

MF argues here that the Act, with its provision for separate progressive and reactionary streams within the Church , was a disaster, a legalisation of schism, damaging to the church's work and to its image.

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...

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...

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

Having grown up in London and at an English boarding school (where his interest in oriental culture was already remarked on), Watts married a wealthy American and became a highEpiscopalian priest in the USA...

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...

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...

Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre with one such woman...