Anglican Church

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The volume, dedicated to her mother and taking from James Montgomery its epigraph—A day's march nearer home—notes for each day the observances of the Anglican Church calendar, sometimes directly engaging...

This novel is long on moral exposition and extended discussions between characters over various threats to the Church of England and its flock, but its plot is weak and derivative. Walter's bright, morally upstanding niece...

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...

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...

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...

This novel explores the breach between Anglicans and Evangelicals within the Church of England .

Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre with one such woman...

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...

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...