Anglican Church

Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

When she gave her first sermon at the City Temple in March of that year, she had had no thought but that this would be the end of preaching for me.

By invitation, EU led an Anglican retreat at Canterbury Cathedral, the first woman to do this.

Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More 's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by...

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM 's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...

This inflammatory book, probably CP 's best known work, was championed by the Church of England (even though the Church disagreed with her views on votes for women). A review by Rebecca West in the...

The Athenæum's review commended EJW for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly. The reviewer affirmed that she offered sound advice in her proper sphere...

But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink (head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press ) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent...

W. T. Stead 's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB 's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in...