Puritans
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anne Bradstreet | |
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 | 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... |
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 | 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
. |
Occupation | Anne Bacon | |
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... |
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