Anglican Church

Her aim was to persuade him to legislate for liberty of conscience and thereby to liberate the many Quakers in prison for their beliefs. Her publications of this momentous year included To Major Generall Harrison...

EJ responded to published comment on James II 's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England.

ST published A Companion to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which she followed with little books explaining, respectively, the sacraments of public baptism and of confirmation.

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans

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.

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...

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...

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.

This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican position.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. This piece has almost nothing to...