Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert.
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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 | 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 | 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 | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
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. Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert. 1 |
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 | Queen Victoria | This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events... |
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 | Maude Royden | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | She described it as a vision of a Church of England
recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers. 352 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah More | 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... |
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 | Willa Muir | She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII
, which established the Church of England
(Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox
in 1559, which established the... |
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