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Cultural formation | Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick | Living as a wife in her father-in-law's house at Leighs inEssex, Mary Rich was affected by its Puritan
ethos. By 1646 she was seeking a new and better life. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 80 |
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)... |
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. 1: 1 |
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... |
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