This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican
position.
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
Cultural formation
Mary Julia Young
MJY
's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England
and...
