Puritans

The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell 's usurpation, among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Brought up in a family that was strongly Puritan , MH continued her piety throughout her life. She attended church every day (putting her public religious duty ahead even of her extensive private observances), engaged...

AB belonged to the English Puritan gentry; her faith was keen, but troubled. Her family's Puritanism shaped her life by taking her to America. Once she reached New England, it became an important factor...

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

Having had religious struggles as a child, AB found her heart rose (that is, rebelliously) at the Puritan community of New England. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted...

Her family belonged to the English gentry class. She seems to have favoured the reformed religion, that is puritanism . At this distance of time there is no prospect of determining whether the promiscuity attributed...

EW was apparently a conservative, Puritan Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland ; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist.

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

She grew up in a strict Puritan , English household. Before she was ten she suffered religious fears: I was so filled with fears and doubts, that I could take no delight in any thing...