Anglican Church

In these polemical speeches, MR not only argues for women's suffrage, but also specifically calls on the Church of England to help women win the vote. She begins by posing the question, is women's suffrage...

She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism.

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...

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...

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

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...

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

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...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

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...

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...