Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn.
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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... |
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... |
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. |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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... |
Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn. 1: 1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Anne Clifford | LAC
says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell
, daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English, Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Maria Child | The idea came to her from reading a call by John Gorham Palfrey
for fiction to be made from early American, Puritan
history, and it was inspired by Yamoyden, 1820, a verse narrative of... |
Literary Setting | Lydia Maria Child | The book is titled from its self-effacing Native American hero, who marries the heroine, Mary Conant, when her fiancé Charles Brown is believed lost at sea. When Charles returns as if from the grave, Hobomok... |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | 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, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin. 5 |
Cultural formation | Cicely Bulstrode | 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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana, Lady Harley | At the time of their wedding (held in the Court milieu of Greenwich), Sir Robert had no children surviving from the total of ten born during his first two marriages. Friends thought he had... |
Residence | Anne Bradstreet | |
Cultural formation | Anne Bradstreet |
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