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Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
waded into High Church
debates over the Bible, challenging institutionalised forms of Christianity and the dogma of Infallible Inspiration, in her theological treatise Broken Lights, An Inquiry into the Present Condition and... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | CR
published with the Society for the Promotion of Christian KnowledgeSeek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies of the Benedicite. The Benedicite is a canticle (used in the Anglican
service of... |
Textual Production | Anne Bacon | Matthew Parker
, Archbishop of Canterbury, published at her own request AB
's An Apologie in Defence of the Churche of Englande, translated from the Latin church settlement written by John Jewel
, Bishop... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joan Vokins | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anthony Trollope | AT
's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church
and of the reform movement within it. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. 660 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Warren | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Plumptre | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Gardam | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Wood | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Lead | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christina Rossetti | The volume, dedicated to her mother
and taking from James Montgomery
its epigraph—A day's march nearer home— Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young. title page |
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