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Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican
position. |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Despite its sensational plot and purple prose, MEB
's first attempt at infusing a touch of poetry and the subjective into her writing through character painting Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 161 |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This work (fuller title Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, In An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled, A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty) summarises and defends her career so... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In The Fatal Three the mostly loveless childhood of Mildred, the daughter of a frivolous society woman, is brightened only by the brief sojourn in her household of a woman presumed to be her illegitimate... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell
, who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England
angel in... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle... |
Textual Features | Frances Trollope | FT
was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England
, so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Underhill | Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU
is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be... |
Textual Features | Ada Cambridge | For the wife of an Anglican
clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens
has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross
[her husband] was overwhelming. Beilby, Raymond, and Cecil Hadgraft. Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed. Oxford University Press. 6 Vickery, Ann. “A ’Lonely Crossing’: Approaching Nineteenth- Century Australian Women’s Poetry”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40 , No. 1, pp. 33-54. 40.1 (Spring 2002): 41 |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church
to the Church of England
. CT
uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions. |
Residence | Frances Wright | The Mylnes had had charge of their brother during the years following their parents' deaths. The two Wright girls lived with them and their five children in a small college house. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press. 12 |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
had always been deeply interested in India, where her father and many other relatives had built their careers. No less than five of the family were there at the time of the Mutiny.... |
Residence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | At his point in her life, her close relatives having either died or grown up, CMT
felt that she had no further family responsibilities and was free to devote herself to missionary work in India... |
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