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Textual Features | Ada Cambridge | For the wife of an Anglican
clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens
has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross
[her husband] was overwhelming. Beilby, Raymond, and Cecil Hadgraft. Ada Cambridge, Tasma and Rosa Praed. Oxford University Press. 6 Vickery, Ann. “A ’Lonely Crossing’: Approaching Nineteenth- Century Australian Women’s Poetry”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40 , No. 1, pp. 33-54. 40.1 (Spring 2002): 41 |
Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | JP
's tone is darker here: she portrays Henry as a tyrant and the various power-hungry and quarrelling families (the Seymours and the Howards) as self-serving weaklings. She does not paint Katherine (as in her... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sewell | The story is of a young girl's development and close relationship with her mother. A High Anglican
message is important here, as it was to be in all of ES
's work. |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent
and specifically Presbyterianism
, but returns to the Church of England
, saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year... |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Textual Features | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | In 1869, the year that Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland
, she exclaims, Oh, noble face marked deep with inward strife! / Oh, steadfast eyes, through which thy soul looks out! In this first... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This work (fuller title Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, In An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled, A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty) summarises and defends her career so... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell
, who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England
angel in... |
Textual Features | Jane Johnson | She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson
... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican
position. |
Textual Features | George Eliot | The essay contributes, as critic Laurel Brake
has argued, to a continuing debate over gender both within the progressive Westminster itself and in mid-Victorian culture more broadly. Brake, Laurel. Print in Transition. Palgrave. 89, passim |
Textual Features | Frances Trollope | FT
was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England
, so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Underhill | Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU
is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
's writings about religious doctrine and practice include the historical and scholarly. The Times Literary Supplement warmly praised her most valuable essay in The Meaning of the Groups, edited by F. A. M. Spencer |
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