Anglican Church

CR wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and...

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...

CFA wrote both hymns and verse, the latter also usually adaptable for music. Her work was mainly directed towards young audiences, as she excelled at writing for children. Over the course of her career in...

EJ was a publisher and political writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as well as a tireless admonisher of monarchs and fervent supporter of the Church of England . Her tone has...

Maude Royden , famous as an early twentieth-century campaigner for women's status in the ministry of the Church of England , was also a preacher, suffragist, feminist, and anti-war activist. She published at least fifty...

HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She...

SH 's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic sources to make them usable by...

Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...

After other countries within the Anglican Communion (but not the Church of England) began to ordain women, female priests who were visiting from abroad on holiday or on business in England would be invited by...

In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...

AP was not merely an old Jacobin, but remained at least until 1810 a Bonapartist. She thought at that date that England would benefit from a French invasion to destroy the aristocracy and the...

GRAS was a response to the Church of England 's Episcopal Act of Synod, passed in 1993, which allowed for the Church of the future to divide into two bodies, one recognizing the ordination of...

MF and Elizabeth Williams , both north-country Quakers, arrived at Cambridge, where they spoke publicly of Sidney Sussex College (an Anglican institution) as an assembly of Antichrists and a Synagogue of Satan.

Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...

Helen Speight reads RS 's actions, in petitioning the government for support for herself and her children when her husband lost his income, in apparently leading a campaign fo harassment against the godly government appointee...