Puritans

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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.
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among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford
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 .
Cultural formation John Dryden
JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.
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.
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Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist.
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.
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Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...
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
In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...
Cultural formation John Milton
JM was an Englishman who admired Italy and a strong Protestant (often described as a Puritan ) who held various heretical views in theology.
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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1 November 1614: Ben Jonson's comedy Bartholomew Fair was...

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1 November 1614

Ben Jonson 's comedy Bartholomew Fair was performed before James I , to whom it was dedicated, by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Collinson, Patrick. “Saints on Sundays, Devils All the Week after”. London Review of Books, 19 Sept. 2002, pp. 15-16.
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19 December 1644: Parliament passed an ordinance insisting...

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19 December 1644

Parliament passed an ordinance insisting that when, in the coming week, Christmas clashed with a monthly fast day, the fast should displace the feast.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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