Puritans

Jordan, a young man dragged from the mud of the River Thames as a baby, sails off to seek his fortune with a botanist who brings rare plants back to England. He falls in love...

A historical novel set in colonial Massachusetts during the years 1675–78, the time of King Philip's war between the natives and settlers in New England, Hope Leslie focuses on a young arrival from England and...

CT has some fun with her persona as a day of the week. Her letter develops as a riddle with clues such as: The laborious poor every where blest my appearance: they do so still...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

In The Decline of Merry EnglandSJ produced a strange little book, variously called a critical history of Puritanism and of the English Civil War.

EW published The Old and Good Way Vindicated, a pamphlet defending established Puritan practice against the innovations of radicals.

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

EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .

She worked hard at the research for this book, which she dedicated to John Addington Symonds . She found her pen could not glide through it as with everyday tales. She worried about...

Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans, the third novel by Margaret Wilson (later MO ), was published as by the author of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland.

Its heroine bears the unusual name of Silence—pronounced in the French, not the English manner, since she has grown up in the Swiss Alps and lived there all her life, teaching music for a living...

AB 's family moved again, from Sempringham in Lincolnshire to Boston in the same county, a centre of Puritan activity.

The title-page this time shows the royal arms. This undated edition is associated by Rebecca Laroche with the Hampton Court Conference of Anglican bishops at which James I pronounced No Bishop, no King (though...

EW , active at the mid seventeenth century, is a learned writer who fills her three Puritan theological pamphlets with strongly structured argument and with Latin notes and references in the margins. Her polemic has...