Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert.
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Anglican Church
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Warren | 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... |
| 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. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Gardam | 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... |
| 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 | Charlotte Yonge | 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | 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 niece... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christina Rossetti | The volume, dedicated to her mother
and taking from James Montgomery
its epigraph—A day's march nearer home— Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young. title page |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Locke | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | This novel explores the breach between Anglicans and Evangelicals within the Church of England
. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 48 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Mozley | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Wood | 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... |
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