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...

She described it as a vision of a Church of England recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. The eponymous protagonist passionately and eloquently defends...

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...

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...

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

AT 's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church and of the reform movement within it.

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...

She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...