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.
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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... |
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 |
Characters | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn. 1: 1 |
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... |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | 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 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Hoby | |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | She grew up in the Puritan
part of the Anglican
faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist
s, and later still of the Presbyterian
s or Independents
. She then... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
's mother, born Lucy St John, came from a family with a strong Puritan
tradition, and was the third wife of her husband. Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press. 285 Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4. 22 |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | In The Decline of Merry EnglandSJ
produced a strange little book, Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 102 Birkett, Jennifer. Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life. Oxford University Press. 102 Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 36: 72 |
Cultural formation | John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester | He was born of a mixed marriage, having a monarchist, cavalier father and a parliamentarian, Puritan
mother. Young John was ten when he succeeded to the earldom bestowed on his father for selfless and dangerous... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Joscelin | EJ
's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican
s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism
. |
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