Anglican Church

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

She boosts the Church of England , of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II (his father...

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...

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...

This pamphlet combines a wealth of scripture reference with a fighting political, anti-Anglican message. It opens with the statement that in the past all holy men of God spoke freely and not for hire: preaching...

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...

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. The eponymous protagonist passionately and eloquently defends...

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

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...

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...

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

AT 's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church and of the reform movement within it.

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...

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...

Again a number of poets are quoted as chapter-headings; this time they include at least one woman, Anna Seward . As to plot, this novel has been categorized as a prototypical forerunner of the thriller...