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Characters | Elizabeth Gaskell | It details the way cultural difference proves fatal when an orphaned young Englishwoman is transplanted to the home of unsympathetic Puritan
relatives in New England. She ends up being burned alongside a native woman during... |
Characters | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | The story is set among the Puritans
under Oliver Cromwell
, and many of the characters bear names that convey the earnest desire of their parents that they should grow up to be rigidly virtuous. |
Characters | Sybille Bedford | In the earliest generation a puritan
New England woman marries an Italian prince who turns out to be a philanderer. Their daughter is restless and unsettled, with an active sex-life which her mother cannot bring... |
Characters | Sybille Bedford | The protagonist, whose mother was a female rake and whose grandmother was a Yankee puritan
, has become a successful writer and reached the age of fifty, but she is still troubled with guilt over... |
Characters | Aphra Behn | This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan
clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates
and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all... |
Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn, 1799, 2 vols. 1: 1 |
Cultural formation | Hannah Allen | While living with her mother she suffered a period of religious questioning which deepened into spiritual despair. She recovered by reading the works of PuritanRobert Bolton
, where she found a passage that directly... |
Cultural formation | Anne Bacon | Her upper-class family were Protestants at a time when this was a bold thing to be, both in religious and intellectual terms. She became, like her parents, a fervent Puritan
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Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
Cultural formation | Katherine Philips | KP
came on both sides from middle-class Puritan
English families. Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68. 1-2 Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68. 5 |
Cultural formation | Fanny Fern | FF
was presumably white, and descended from Puritan
colonists who first settled in Boston,Massachusetts, in 1630. Her father, Nathaniel Willis
, was deeply, and strictly, religious. Sara, however, always resisted his form of Calvinism... |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | John Milton | |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | Hers was the first name that Bunyan entered as joining this Puritan
congregation, not long after his release from prison under the terms of Charles II
's Declaration of Indulgence (promulgated on 15 March 1672)... |
Cultural formation | Brilliana Lady Harley | Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan
, more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian
in religion. Eales and others have applied to her... |
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