Athenæum. J. Lection.
2370 (1873): 406
Anglican Church
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Emma Jane Worboise | The Athenæum's review commended EJW
for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly. |
| Literary responses | Christabel Pankhurst | 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 Clarion... |
| Literary responses | Doreen Wallace | 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... |
| Literary responses | Hannah More | 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... |
| Literary responses | Mary Renault | Early reviewers linked The Charioteer to the growing reform movement in Britain because of its polemical stance and the coincidental occurrence of the Gielgud trial. Even the Church of England
's official newspaper approved the... |
| Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | George Orwell
no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression... |
| Literary responses | Emma Frances Brooke | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Vera Brittain | The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England
's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB
explained that Honourable Estate purports to show... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Daniels | The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd, with revisions, Oxford University Press, 1956. 388 |
| Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR
not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles
, but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon
, was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | He denied the charges, but also argued that if adultery had taken place then she had condoned both it and his cruelty, and that there had been conduct on the part of the petitioner [Hobbes]... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley
had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | NJ
's father, Samuel Jacob
, had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago... |
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